| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter 1 Similarity ─ Essence of Metaphor | 第11-26页 |
| ·Similarity in Classical Rhetoric | 第11-17页 |
| ·Views on Similarity at Home | 第11-14页 |
| ·Views on Similarity Abroad | 第14-17页 |
| ·Similarity in Cognitive Linguistics | 第17-24页 |
| ·Richards’View | 第17-19页 |
| ·Black’s View | 第19-21页 |
| ·Lakoff’s View | 第21-22页 |
| ·Indurkhya’s View | 第22-24页 |
| ·Summary | 第24-26页 |
| Chapter 2 Re-accounting for Similarity in Metaphor | 第26-46页 |
| ·Types of Similarity | 第26-31页 |
| ·Physical Similarity | 第28页 |
| ·Psychological Similarity | 第28-30页 |
| ·Interrelationship Between Physical Similarity and Psychological Similarity | 第30-31页 |
| ·Mapping of Similarity | 第31-35页 |
| ·From the Concrete Domain to the Abstract Domain | 第32-33页 |
| ·From the Concrete Domain to the Concrete Domain | 第33-34页 |
| ·From the Abstract Domain to the Abstract Domain | 第34页 |
| ·From the Abstract Domain to the Concrete Domain | 第34-35页 |
| ·Cognitive Construction of Similarity | 第35-39页 |
| ·Genus-species Relation of Concepts and Similarity | 第35-37页 |
| ·Analogical Inference and Similarity | 第37-39页 |
| ·Characteristics of Similarity | 第39-46页 |
| ·Similarity Is Subjective | 第39-41页 |
| ·Similarity Is Dominant | 第41-42页 |
| ·Similarity Is Relative | 第42-46页 |
| Chapter 3 Fuzziness ─ Another Aspect of Essence in Metaphor | 第46-65页 |
| ·An Introduction to Fuzziness | 第46-49页 |
| ·Zadeh and His Fuzzy Set Theory | 第46-48页 |
| ·Light Shed by Fuzzy Set Theory on Metaphor | 第48-49页 |
| ·Types of Fuzziness in Metaphor | 第49-54页 |
| ·Semantic Fuzziness | 第51-52页 |
| ·Categorial Fuzziness | 第52-54页 |
| ·Characteristics of Fuzziness | 第54-57页 |
| ·Fuzziness Is Objective | 第54-55页 |
| ·Fuzziness Is Recessive | 第55-56页 |
| ·Fuzziness Is Inherent | 第56-57页 |
| ·Source of Fuzziness | 第57-65页 |
| ·Recessive Logical Laws | 第58-60页 |
| ·Psychological Categorization | 第60-63页 |
| ·Fuzzy Thinking | 第63-65页 |
| Conclusion | 第65-67页 |
| Bibliography | 第67-71页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第71-72页 |
| Appendix | 第72-73页 |
| 详细摘要 | 第73-81页 |
