| Abstract in English | 第1-9页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第9-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review | 第15-20页 |
| ·Metaphor Study in the West | 第15-18页 |
| ·Metaphor Study in China | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Foundations | 第20-27页 |
| ·A General View of Conceptual Metaphor | 第20-21页 |
| ·The Features of Conceptual Metaphor | 第21-23页 |
| ·The Working Mechanism of Conceptual Metaphor | 第23-24页 |
| ·The Working Mechanism of Animal Metaphors | 第24-27页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology | 第27-46页 |
| ·Research Design | 第27页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第27-29页 |
| ·Identifying Metaphor | 第29-30页 |
| ·Data Analysis | 第30-46页 |
| ·Animal Images Are Mapped onto Human Beings | 第30-37页 |
| ·Animal Images Are Mapped onto Other Social Areas | 第37-46页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussion | 第46-87页 |
| ·Cognitive Commonalities of Animal Metaphors in English and Chinese | 第46-67页 |
| ·Universality and Systematicity in Animal Metaphors | 第46-50页 |
| ·HUMAN IS AN ANIMAL | 第46-48页 |
| ·INANIMATE THING IS AN ANIMAL | 第48-50页 |
| ·The Semantic Duality and Semantic Unitary in Animal Metaphors | 第50-58页 |
| ·Semantic Duality in Animal Metaphors | 第51-54页 |
| ·Semantic Unitary in Animal Metaphors | 第54-58页 |
| ·The Anthropocentrism in Animal Metaphors | 第58-67页 |
| ·The Cross-Cultural Variation in Animal Metaphor | 第67-87页 |
| ·The Cross-Cultural Variation | 第69-81页 |
| ·Animal Terms with Congruent Source-target Mappings | 第70-72页 |
| ·Animal Terms with Preferential Source-target Mappings | 第72-75页 |
| ·Animal Terms with Specific Value Judgments | 第75-78页 |
| ·Animal Terms with Unique Source-target Mappings | 第78-81页 |
| ·The Causes of Animal Metaphor Variation | 第81-87页 |
| ·Differential Experience | 第81-83页 |
| ·Differential Cognitive Preferences | 第83-86页 |
| ·Differential Language System | 第86-87页 |
| Conclusion | 第87-90页 |
| Bibliography | 第90-94页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第94-95页 |
| Publications | 第95页 |
