| 摘要 | 第1-7页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第7-9页 |
| Contents | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第11-14页 |
| ·Motivations and Objectives | 第11-12页 |
| ·Research Methodology | 第12页 |
| ·The Organization of this Thesis | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第14-24页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Adjectives | 第14-16页 |
| ·Polysemy of Adjectives | 第16-18页 |
| ·A Special Case: Transferred Epithet | 第18-22页 |
| ·Classifications of Transferred Epithet | 第18-19页 |
| ·Characteristics of Transferred Epithet | 第19-20页 |
| ·Formation of Transferred Epithet | 第20-22页 |
| ·Summary | 第22-24页 |
| Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework | 第24-35页 |
| ·Embodied Philosophy | 第24-29页 |
| ·The Origin of the Concept of Experience | 第25页 |
| ·Embodied Philosophy as the Philosophic Basis for Cognitive Linguistics | 第25-26页 |
| ·Concept of Embodied Philosophy | 第26-27页 |
| ·Embodied Philosophy in Language | 第27-29页 |
| ·The Conceptual Metaphor Theory | 第29-33页 |
| ·The Nature of Conceptual Metaphor | 第29-31页 |
| ·Metaphor as a Mapping across Domains | 第31-32页 |
| ·Ontological Metaphor | 第32-33页 |
| ·Applications of the Theories | 第33-34页 |
| ·Summary | 第34-35页 |
| Chapter 4 The Extended Uses of Human-Describing Adjectives | 第35-58页 |
| ·Human-Describing Adjectives | 第35-37页 |
| ·Adjectives Which Describe Human Body | 第36页 |
| ·Adjectives Which Describe Human Emotion | 第36-37页 |
| ·The Extended Uses of Human-Describing Adjectives | 第37-50页 |
| ·The Extended Uses of Adjectives Which Describe Human Body | 第37-46页 |
| ·The Extended Uses of Adjectives Which Describe Human Emotion | 第46-50页 |
| ·The Formation Mechanism of the Extended Uses of Human-Describing Adjectives | 第50-56页 |
| ·Conventional Collocation and Nonconventinal Collocation | 第56页 |
| ·Summary | 第56-58页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第58-60页 |
| References | 第60-63页 |
| Appendix : 攻读硕士学位期间发表论文及科研情况 | 第63-64页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第64页 |
