| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-12页 |
| ·Purpose of the Study | 第9-10页 |
| ·Methodology and Data Collection | 第10页 |
| ·Layout of the Study | 第10-12页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第12-16页 |
| ·Introduction | 第12页 |
| ·Psychological Approach to TIME AS SPACE Metaphor | 第12-13页 |
| ·Cultural Approach to TIME AS SPACE Metaphor | 第13页 |
| ·Cognitive Approach to TIME AS SPACE Metaphor | 第13-14页 |
| ·Summary | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter Three Understanding Time: A Process of Metaphorization | 第16-19页 |
| ·Introduction | 第16页 |
| ·General Introduction to Time | 第16-17页 |
| ·Different Views on Time | 第16页 |
| ·Classification of Time: Linear and Cyclical | 第16-17页 |
| ·Conceptual Metaphors and Time | 第17-18页 |
| ·Structural Metaphors of TIME | 第17-18页 |
| ·Ontological Metaphors of TIME | 第18页 |
| ·Orientational Metaphors of TIME | 第18页 |
| ·Summary | 第18-19页 |
| Chapter Four Contrastive Study of E-C Orientational Metaphors of TIME | 第19-37页 |
| ·Introduction | 第19页 |
| ·Cognitive Model of TIME: A Way of Organizing Temporal Experience | 第19页 |
| ·Orientational Metaphor of TIME in its Broad Sense | 第19-24页 |
| ·Similarities between English and Chinese Orientational Metaphors of TIME | 第19-23页 |
| ·Moving-time Model | 第20-21页 |
| ·Moving-ego Model | 第21-22页 |
| ·Moving-time and Moving-ego Model | 第22-23页 |
| ·Differences between English and Chinese Orientational Metaphors of TIME | 第23-24页 |
| ·Orientational Metaphors of TIME in its Narrow Sense | 第24-36页 |
| ·Similarities between English and Chinese Orientational Metaphors of TIME | 第24-34页 |
| ·FAR/NEAR as Source Domain | 第24-26页 |
| ·LONG/SHORT as Source Domain | 第26-28页 |
| ·IN/OUT as Source Domain | 第28-30页 |
| ·LONG/SHORT as Source Domain | 第30-31页 |
| ·Distinctiveness of LONG/SHORT as Source Domain | 第31-34页 |
| ·Differences between English and Chinese Orientational Metaphors of TIME | 第34-36页 |
| ·Summary | 第36-37页 |
| Chapter Five Reasons for the Similarities and Differences between English and Chinese Orientational Metaphors of TIME | 第37-41页 |
| ·Introduction | 第37页 |
| ·Reasons for the Similarities | 第37-38页 |
| ·Reason for the Differences | 第38-39页 |
| ·Summary | 第39-41页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第41-44页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Study | 第41-42页 |
| ·Implications of the Study | 第42-43页 |
| ·Limitation of the Study and Prospects for Future Research | 第43-44页 |
| Bibliography | 第44-48页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第48-49页 |
| Publications | 第49页 |
