| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-7页 |
| Contents | 第7-10页 |
| List of Tables and Figures | 第10-11页 |
| Chapter One INTRODUCTION | 第11-14页 |
| ·Research Objective | 第11-12页 |
| ·A Brief Description of the Research Design | 第12-13页 |
| ·General Organization of this Thesis | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter Two THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK | 第14-32页 |
| ·The Classification of Figures of Speech | 第14-21页 |
| ·The Definition of Figures of Speech | 第14-16页 |
| ·The Types of Figures of Speech | 第16-17页 |
| ·The Known Classification of Figures of Speech | 第17-20页 |
| ·The Classification for this Study | 第20-21页 |
| ·Overview of Sports News | 第21-28页 |
| ·Definition of Sports News | 第22-24页 |
| ·Structure of Sports News Reporting | 第24-26页 |
| ·Types of Sports News Reporting | 第26-27页 |
| ·Register of Journalistic English for Sports | 第27-28页 |
| ·Data Collection and Corpus Establishment | 第28-32页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第28-30页 |
| ·Establishment of the Corpus | 第30-32页 |
| Chapter Three QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES OF SPEECH IN EACH CATEGORY | 第32-83页 |
| ·General Analysis of All the Figures of Speech | 第32-35页 |
| ·Figures of Speech Identifying | 第32-33页 |
| ·Quantitative Analysis of all the Figures | 第33-35页 |
| ·Descriptive Analysis of all the Figures | 第35-83页 |
| ·Figures of Resemblance or Relationship | 第35-62页 |
| ·Simile | 第35-37页 |
| ·Metaphor | 第37-52页 |
| ·Metonymy | 第52-59页 |
| ·Personification | 第59-61页 |
| ·Summary | 第61-62页 |
| ·Figures of Emphasizing or Understatement | 第62-74页 |
| ·Hyperbole | 第62-67页 |
| ·Euphemism and Understatement | 第67-69页 |
| ·Satire and Irony | 第69-70页 |
| ·Parallelism, Antithesis and Rhetorical Question | 第70-73页 |
| ·Summary | 第73-74页 |
| ·Figures of Verbal Games | 第74-78页 |
| ·Pun | 第74-76页 |
| ·Repetition | 第76-77页 |
| ·Summary | 第77-78页 |
| ·Figures Concerning Collocation Errors | 第78-83页 |
| ·Transferred Epithet and Synaesthesia | 第78-80页 |
| ·Syllepsis and Zeugma | 第80-81页 |
| ·Summary | 第81-83页 |
| Chapter Four ANALYSIS OF SOME FIGURES FROM A CULTURAL POINT OF VIEW AND THE IMPLICATION ON ESL TEACHING AND LEARNING OF THIS STUDY | 第83-101页 |
| ·Analysis of some Figures from a Cultural Point of View | 第83-96页 |
| ·Culture and Figures of Speech | 第84-85页 |
| ·Analysis of Simile and Metaphor | 第85-92页 |
| ·Analysis of Metonymy | 第92-94页 |
| ·Analysis of Hyperbole | 第94-96页 |
| ·Pedagogical Implications on ESL Learning and Teaching | 第96-101页 |
| ·Perspective of Cultural Teaching and Learning | 第96-98页 |
| ·Perspective of Language Transfer | 第98-99页 |
| ·Enlightenment for Classroom | 第99-101页 |
| Chapter Five CONCLUSION | 第101-105页 |
| Bibliography | 第105-108页 |
| Appendix | 第108-111页 |
