| Abstract in English | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第4-5页 |
| Contents | 第5-7页 |
| Introduction | 第7-10页 |
| Chapter 1 Theories of Metaphor | 第10-15页 |
| ·Comparison Theory and Substitution Theory | 第11页 |
| ·Interaction Theory | 第11-12页 |
| ·Conceptual Metaphor Theory | 第12-15页 |
| Chapter 2 TheoreticalBasisoftheThesis | 第15-22页 |
| ·Cognitive Nature of Metaphor | 第15页 |
| ·WorkingMechanismofMetaphor:Cross-domainMapping | 第15-17页 |
| ·Cognitive Functions of Metaphor | 第17-20页 |
| ·An Important Means of Understanding the World | 第18页 |
| ·An Essential Way of Conceptualizing Experience | 第18-19页 |
| ·ACognitive Tool in Creating New Meanings | 第19-20页 |
| ·Culture Reflected in Metaphor | 第20-22页 |
| Chapter 3 Body Metaphors in English and Chinese | 第22-35页 |
| ·ResearchDesignandDataCollection | 第22-23页 |
| ·Cognition of Body Metaphor | 第23-26页 |
| ·Working Mechanism of Body Metaphor | 第23-24页 |
| ·Features of Body Metaphor | 第24-26页 |
| ·Analogy in thinking | 第24-25页 |
| ·DirectionalandPartialinMapping | 第25页 |
| ·Contradiction and Fixation in Meaning | 第25-26页 |
| ·Repetition in use | 第26页 |
| ·Mapping Models of Body Metaphor | 第26-33页 |
| ·Mapping from Body Domain to Non-body Domain | 第27-30页 |
| ·Mappingfrom BodyDomain to Concrete Non-bodyDomain | 第27-29页 |
| ·Mapping from Body Domain to Abstract Non-body Domain | 第29-30页 |
| ·Mapping from Non-body Domain to Body Domain | 第30-31页 |
| ·Mapping Between two Body Parts | 第31-32页 |
| ·Mapping from Relationship Between Different Body Parts to Relationship Between Things or Persons | 第32-33页 |
| ·The Corresponding Degree | 第33-35页 |
| Chapter 4 Causes for the Similarities and Differences | 第35-38页 |
| ·Cognitive Universality | 第35-36页 |
| ·Cultural Relativity | 第36-38页 |
| Conclusion | 第38-40页 |
| Bibliography | 第40-42页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第42页 |
