| Abstract | 第1-10页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第10-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-24页 |
| ·The Reading of Time | 第13-16页 |
| ·Formal Treatments of Time | 第14页 |
| ·The Characteristics of Time | 第14-16页 |
| ·Segmentability | 第14-15页 |
| ·Inclusion | 第15页 |
| ·Linear order | 第15-16页 |
| ·Proximity | 第16页 |
| ·Duration | 第16页 |
| ·Origo | 第16页 |
| ·The Relationship Between Time and Space | 第16-19页 |
| ·The Objective and Significance of This Study | 第19-21页 |
| ·The Organization of the Thesis | 第21-24页 |
| Chapter Two Cognitive Approach to Metaphor: A Literature Review | 第24-37页 |
| ·Views of Metaphor: Classical vs. Contemporary | 第24-26页 |
| ·Conceptual Metaphors and Metaphor Systems | 第26-34页 |
| ·The Systematicity of Conceptual Metaphors | 第26-28页 |
| ·Metaphor Inheritance Hierarchies | 第28-31页 |
| ·Image Schemas | 第31-32页 |
| ·Invariance Principle | 第32-34页 |
| ·Experiential Basis of Metaphor | 第34-36页 |
| ·Summary | 第36-37页 |
| Chapter Three The Study of TIME AS SPACE Metaphor in English | 第37-51页 |
| ·Alverson's Cross-cultural and Cross-linguistic Model | 第37-42页 |
| ·The Metaphorization of Time: Lakoff's Model | 第42-49页 |
| ·The Time Orientation Metaphor | 第42-43页 |
| ·The Moving Time Metaphor | 第43-46页 |
| ·The Moving Observer Metaphor | 第46-48页 |
| ·Two Special Cases | 第48-49页 |
| ·Summary | 第49-51页 |
| Chapter Four Spatialization of Time Metaphors in Chinese | 第51-81页 |
| ·Evidence in Lexicon | 第51-68页 |
| ·The Past in Chinese Lexicon | 第51-55页 |
| ·The Present in Chinese Lexicon | 第55-57页 |
| ·The Future in Chinese Lexicon | 第57-59页 |
| ·The Verbs in Collocation with 'past' | 第59-61页 |
| ·The Verbs in Collocation with 'future' | 第61-62页 |
| ·'lai' and 'qian': Two Contradictory Cases | 第62-65页 |
| ·'shang'/'xia': Two Spatial Terms Used in the Temporal Domain | 第65-68页 |
| ·Evidence in the Inference Patterns | 第68-80页 |
| ·Case 1: Time as Moving Object | 第69-73页 |
| ·Case 2: Time as Bounded Space | 第73-78页 |
| ·The Duality: Mixture of Two Special Cases | 第78-80页 |
| ·Summary | 第80-81页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第81-86页 |
| Bibliography | 第86-92页 |
