| Abstract | 第1-9页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第15-23页 |
| ·Metaphor | 第15-19页 |
| ·Rhetoric View | 第15-17页 |
| ·Other Views | 第17-18页 |
| ·Cognitive Approach | 第18-19页 |
| ·Emotion Metaphor | 第19-22页 |
| ·Sadness Metaphor | 第22-23页 |
| Chapter Three Conceptual Metaphor | 第23-37页 |
| ·Linguistic Metaphor vs. Conceptual Metaphor | 第23-25页 |
| ·Mapping | 第25-28页 |
| ·Image-schema | 第28-31页 |
| ·The Notion of Embodiment | 第31-33页 |
| ·Metaphor and Metonymy | 第33-35页 |
| ·Personification | 第35-37页 |
| Chapter Four Conceptualization of Sadness Metaphor | 第37-63页 |
| ·Basic Emotion Categories | 第37-40页 |
| ·Conceptualization of Sadness Metaphor in English | 第40-52页 |
| ·Conceptualization of Sadness Metaphor in Chinese | 第52-61页 |
| ·Emotion Chain and Overlapping | 第61-63页 |
| Chapter Five Perceiving Sadness Metaphor | 第63-84页 |
| ·Contrastive Study of Conceptualization of Sadness Metaphor between Chinese and English | 第63-68页 |
| ·Shared experience | 第68-73页 |
| ·Consistency in Metonymy | 第69-70页 |
| ·Consistency in Metaphor | 第70-71页 |
| ·Embodied Conceptual Structures | 第71-73页 |
| ·Cultural Variation | 第73-81页 |
| ·Cultural Context | 第73-74页 |
| ·The Theory of Yin-yang and Five Elements in Chinese Philosophy | 第74-77页 |
| ·Union of Heaven and Human vs. Binary of Subject and Object | 第77-81页 |
| ·Language and Culture | 第81-84页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第84-86页 |
| Bibliography | 第86-89页 |