| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-5页 |
| 英文摘要 | 第5-8页 |
| INTRODUCTION | 第8-9页 |
| CHAPTER 1 METAPHOR AND COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS | 第9-17页 |
| 1．1 Cognitive linguisties | 第9-13页 |
| 1．1．1 Background knowledge | 第9-10页 |
| 1．1．2 The experientialism | 第10-13页 |
| 1．2 Three traditional theories of metaphor | 第13-15页 |
| 1．2．1 The substitution theory | 第13-14页 |
| 1．2．2 The comparison theory | 第14页 |
| 1．2．3 The interaction theory | 第14-15页 |
| 1．3 Metaphorical Concept | 第15-17页 |
| CHAPTER 2 COGNITIVE VIEW OF METAPHOR | 第17-30页 |
| 2．1 The theoretical framework of cognitive semantics | 第17-22页 |
| 2．1．1 Natural experience | 第18-19页 |
| 2．1．2 Image schema | 第19-21页 |
| 2．1．3 Metaphorical mapping | 第21-22页 |
| 2．2 Features of metaphor | 第22-23页 |
| 2．3 Lakoff's classification of conceptual metaphors | 第23-29页 |
| 2．3．1 Orientational metaphors | 第23-26页 |
| 2．3．2 Ontological metaphors | 第26-28页 |
| 2．3．3 Structural metaphors | 第28-29页 |
| 2．4 Some points in applying Lakoff's classification to the analysis of the time concept | 第29-30页 |
| CHAPTER 3 METAPHORICAL UNDERSTANDING OF TIME | 第30-41页 |
| 3．1 How to define time? | 第30-32页 |
| 3．1．1 A brief review of the time concept in history | 第30-31页 |
| 3．1．2 A dynamic, open-ended definition of time | 第31-32页 |
| 3．2 Metaphorical understanding of time underlying Chinese and English lexicons | 第32-41页 |
| 3．2．1 Orientational metaphors | 第33-36页 |
| 3．2．2 Ontological metaphors | 第36-41页 |
| 3．2．2．1 Time regarded as a moving object | 第36-37页 |
| 3．2．2．2 Time regarded as something valuable | 第37-38页 |
| 3．2．2．3 Time regarded as a container | 第38-40页 |
| 3．2．2．4 Time regarded as a concrete entity | 第40-41页 |
| CHAPTER 4 THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ENGLISH AND CHINESE IN UNDERSTANDING THE TIME CONCEPT | 第41-47页 |
| 4．1 The differences | 第41-44页 |
| 4．1．1 Orientational metaphors | 第41-43页 |
| 4．1．2 Ontological metaphors | 第43-44页 |
| 4．2 The cause of those differences between English and Chinese in understanding the time cocept | 第44-45页 |
| 4．3 Implications for English and Chinese lexical comparison, for FLT and for translation | 第45-47页 |
| CHAPTER 5 CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER RESARCH | 第47-49页 |
| 5．1 Conclusions | 第47-48页 |
| 5．2 Limitations of the research and suggestions for further study | 第48-49页 |
| 5．2．1 Limitations of the research | 第48页 |
| 5．2．2 Suggestions for further study | 第48-49页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第49-50页 |
