| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-12页 |
| Chapter One An Overview of Metaphor Study and the WorkingMechanisms | 第12-32页 |
| ·Introduction | 第12-14页 |
| ·The Cognitive Approach to Metaphor | 第14-15页 |
| ·Classification of Conceptual Metaphors | 第15-19页 |
| ·Structural Metaphor | 第15-16页 |
| ·Orientational Metaphor | 第16-17页 |
| ·Ontological Metaphor | 第17-19页 |
| ·Features of Conceptual Metaphor | 第19-20页 |
| ·The Working Mechanisms of Conceptual Metaphor | 第20-32页 |
| ·The Cross-domain Mapping | 第21-22页 |
| ·Internal Structure of Metaphorical Mapping | 第22-23页 |
| ·The Integrated Theory of Primary Metaphor | 第23-32页 |
| ·Johnson's Theory of Conflation | 第23-24页 |
| ·Grady's Theory of Primary Metaphor | 第24-25页 |
| ·Narayanan's Neural Theory of Metaphor | 第25-26页 |
| ·Fauconnier and Turner's Conceptual Blending Theory (CBT) | 第26-32页 |
| Chapter Two Introduction to English Compound Adjectives | 第32-48页 |
| ·The Definition of English Compound Adjectives | 第32-33页 |
| ·The Formative Structure of English Compound Adjectives | 第33-41页 |
| ·Classification from the Lexical Perspective | 第33-39页 |
| ·Adjective-centered | 第33-35页 |
| ·Verb participle-centered | 第35-37页 |
| ·Noun-centered(including noun+suffix-ed) | 第37-38页 |
| ·Prepositional phrase-centered | 第38页 |
| ·Sentence form-centered | 第38-39页 |
| ·Classification from the Syntactic Perspective | 第39-41页 |
| ·Structural Analysis of Compound Adjectives | 第41-48页 |
| Chapter Three The Interpretation of Metaphor in English CompoundAdjectives | 第48-62页 |
| ·The Similarity as Basis of Metaphorical Expressions | 第49-51页 |
| ·Semantic Motivations to English Compound Adjectives | 第51-57页 |
| ·Metaphor motivation | 第52-54页 |
| ·Metonymy motivation | 第54-56页 |
| ·Metaphor plus metonymy motivation | 第56-57页 |
| ·Conceptual Blending Analysis of English Compound Adjectives | 第57-62页 |
| Conclusion | 第62-65页 |
| Bibliography | 第65-69页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第69页 |
