| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-13页 |
| CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION | 第13-21页 |
| ·RESEARCH BACKGROUND | 第13-18页 |
| ·The origins of Chinese characters | 第13-15页 |
| ·The nature of Chinese characters | 第15-18页 |
| ·OBJECTIVES OF THE PRESENT STUDY | 第18-19页 |
| ·METHODOLOGY | 第19-20页 |
| ·OUTLINE OF THE PRESENT STUDY | 第20-21页 |
| CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW | 第21-34页 |
| ·TRADITIONAL INTERPRETATIONS OF FORM AND MEANING | 第21-22页 |
| ·EMBODIMENTS OF FORM AND MEANING: COGNITIVE SEMANTICS | 第22-25页 |
| ·FORM AND MEANING IN CHINESE CHARACTERS | 第25-30页 |
| ·Traditional method to Chinese characters | 第25-29页 |
| ·Modern linguistics: the cognitive model | 第29-30页 |
| ·THEORETICAL FOUNDATION OF THE CURRENT STUDY | 第30-34页 |
| ·Philosophical foundation of cognition: experientialism | 第30-31页 |
| ·A brief introduction of cognitive theories in the study of motivations of Chinese characters | 第31-34页 |
| CHAPTER 3 FORMATION OF CHINESE CHARACTERS | 第34-40页 |
| ·THE FORMATION BASED ON THE COMPOSITION | 第34-37页 |
| ·THE FORMATION BASED ON THE USAGE | 第37-40页 |
| CHAPTER 4 ANALYSIS OF SPATIAL –TEMPORAL MEANING OF CHINESE CHARACTERS | 第40-57页 |
| ·THE MEANING ANALYSIS OF 上(UP) AND 下(DOWN) | 第41-54页 |
| ·The static model of “上”(up) and “下”(down) | 第42-47页 |
| ·The dynamic model of “上”(up) and “下”(down) | 第47-54页 |
| ·THE DIAGRAM OF “上”(UP) AND “下”(DOWN) | 第54-55页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第55-57页 |
| CHAPTER 5 ANALYSIS OF BLENDING MEANING OF CHINESE CHARACTERS | 第57-76页 |
| ·ICONICITY AND METAPHOR | 第57-59页 |
| ·AN OVERVIEW OF INTERPLAY BETWEEN CONCEPTUAL BLENDING AND ICONICITY | 第59-64页 |
| ·The network model of conceptual blending | 第59-60页 |
| ·The basic process of blending | 第60-61页 |
| ·The model of blending with iconicity | 第61-64页 |
| ·CASE STUDY | 第64-75页 |
| ·Iconicity in Chinese characters | 第64-65页 |
| ·Concept blending and the meaning production of Chinese characters | 第65-75页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第75-76页 |
| CHAPTER 6 ANALYSIS OF EXPERIENTIALISM MEANING OF CHINESE CHARACTERS | 第76-85页 |
| ·EMBODIMENT AND HUMAN IN SCALE | 第76-77页 |
| ·CHINESE CHARACTERS AND EXPERIENTIALISM | 第77-81页 |
| ·CASE STUDY OF “心”(HEART) | 第81-85页 |
| CHAPTER 7 CONCLUSION | 第85-89页 |
| ·FINDINGS OF THE RESEARCH | 第85-86页 |
| ·IMPLICATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDY | 第86-89页 |
| REFERENCES | 第89-94页 |
| APPENDIX | 第94-97页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第97-98页 |
| 作者简介 | 第98页 |
