| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-14页 |
| Chapter 1 Literary Overview of Conceptual Metaphor Theory | 第14-24页 |
| ·The definition of conceptual metaphor | 第14-15页 |
| ·The working mechanism of conceptual metaphor | 第15-16页 |
| ·The classification of the conceptual metaphor | 第16-19页 |
| ·Structural metaphors | 第16-17页 |
| ·Orientational metaphors | 第17-18页 |
| ·Ontological metaphors | 第18-19页 |
| ·The characteristics of conceptual metaphors | 第19-22页 |
| ·Universality and nationality | 第19-20页 |
| ·Systematicity | 第20-21页 |
| ·Coherence | 第21-22页 |
| ·Study on metaphor in cognitive linguistics | 第22-24页 |
| ·Categorization and basic category | 第22页 |
| ·Prototype theory of categorization | 第22-24页 |
| Chapter 2Vocabulary Learning and Conceptual Metaphor | 第24-37页 |
| ·General issues about vocabulary learning | 第24-27页 |
| ·The definition of vocabulary learning | 第24页 |
| ·Depth of processing hypothesis | 第24-25页 |
| ·Traditional methods of vocabulary teaching and learning | 第25-27页 |
| ·The relationship between conceptual metaphors and vocabulary learning | 第27页 |
| ·Implications of conceptual metaphors on polysemy learning | 第27-37页 |
| ·Processes of polysemy | 第28-31页 |
| ·Learning polysemy by conceptual metaphor | 第31-37页 |
| Chapter 3 Empirical Support for Conceptual Metaphor Approach | 第37-50页 |
| ·The purpose of the experiment | 第37页 |
| ·Subjects | 第37-38页 |
| ·Instruments | 第38页 |
| ·The reliability and validity | 第38页 |
| ·Data-collection | 第38-39页 |
| ·The results and analysis | 第39-47页 |
| ·Results and analysis on pretest | 第39页 |
| ·Results and analysis on Test1 | 第39-47页 |
| ·Results and analysis of Test2 | 第47页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第47-50页 |
| Chapter 4 Implications to the Teaching and Learning of Polysemies | 第50-56页 |
| ·Some pedagogical implications | 第51-53页 |
| ·Students' metaphor awareness needs to be enhanced | 第51页 |
| ·Students' metaphorical competence needs to be improved | 第51-52页 |
| ·Conceptual metaphor models need to be established | 第52页 |
| ·The relationship between the original meaning and the metaphorical meaning needs to be explored | 第52-53页 |
| ·Two approaches of applying conceptual metaphor theory to polysemies teaching | 第53-56页 |
| ·A Bottom-up approach | 第53-54页 |
| ·A Top-down approach | 第54-56页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第56-58页 |
| Appendix | 第58-65页 |
| References | 第65-68页 |
| 攻读硕士期间的科研成果 | 第68页 |
