| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-12页 |
| ·Significance of the Study of Metaphor | 第9-10页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第10-11页 |
| ·Research Methods | 第11页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第11-12页 |
| Chapter Two Review of the Study of Metaphor | 第12-21页 |
| ·Classical Study of Metaphor | 第12-14页 |
| ·Classical Definition | 第12-13页 |
| ·Classical View on the Nature of Metaphor | 第13-14页 |
| ·Cognitive Approaches to the Study of Metaphor | 第14-19页 |
| ·Interaction Theory | 第15-16页 |
| ·Mapping Theory | 第16-17页 |
| ·Conceptual Blending and Mental Space Theory | 第17-19页 |
| ·Classification of Metaphor | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter Three Experientialism | 第21-32页 |
| ·Emergence of Experientialism | 第21-22页 |
| ·Essence of Experientialism | 第22-29页 |
| ·Experiential Gestalts | 第24-25页 |
| ·Image Schema | 第25-27页 |
| ·The Invariance Principle | 第27-29页 |
| ·Experientialism and Categorization | 第29-30页 |
| ·Significance of Experientialism | 第30-32页 |
| Chapter Four Relation Between Experientialism and Conceptual Metaphor | 第32-49页 |
| ·Understanding----the Bridge Between Experience and Metaphor | 第32-35页 |
| ·Direct immediate understanding | 第32-33页 |
| ·Indirect understanding | 第33-35页 |
| ·Characteristics of Human Understanding | 第35页 |
| ·Experientialism and Metaphor----from a Philosophical Point of View | 第35-36页 |
| ·Human Experience and Conceptual Metaphor----Examples | 第36-46页 |
| ·Human Experience and Orientational Metaphor | 第37-42页 |
| ·Human Experience and Ontological Metaphor | 第42页 |
| ·Human Experience and Structural Metaphor | 第42-46页 |
| ·Conceptual Metaphor in Shaping Human Experience | 第46-49页 |
| ·The Conduit Metaphor | 第46-47页 |
| ·Highlighting and Hiding of Meaning by Metaphor | 第47-49页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第49-51页 |
| Bibliography | 第51-54页 |
