| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract (English) | 第6-7页 |
| Abstract (Chinese) | 第7-10页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第10-12页 |
| Chapter 2 A Literature Review Relevant to the Synaesthesia Study | 第12-18页 |
| ·The Neuroscientific Perspective | 第12-14页 |
| ·The Rhetorical Perspective | 第14-16页 |
| ·The Cognitive Perspective | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter 3 Conceptual Metaphor: the Cognitive Basis of Synaesthesia | 第18-34页 |
| ·The Conceptual Metaphor Theory | 第18-26页 |
| ·The Conceptual Nature of Metaphor | 第19-21页 |
| ·The Internal Structure of Metaphor | 第21-24页 |
| ·The Embodied Nature of Metaphor | 第24-26页 |
| ·Synaesthetic Metaphor | 第26-32页 |
| ·The Internal Structure of Synaesthetic Metaphor | 第26-28页 |
| ·The Embodied Nature of Synaesthetic Metaphor | 第28-32页 |
| ·The Concrete Source Domain | 第29-30页 |
| ·The Phenomenological Embodiment | 第30-31页 |
| ·The Neural Embodiment | 第31-32页 |
| ·Summary | 第32-34页 |
| Chapter 4 Comparative Analysis Between English and Chinese Synaesthesia | 第34-50页 |
| ·Similarities Between English and Chinese Synaesthesia | 第34-44页 |
| ·Touch as Source Domain | 第34-37页 |
| ·Taste / Smell as Source Domain | 第37-39页 |
| ·Hearing as Source Domain | 第39-40页 |
| ·Vision as Source Domain | 第40-42页 |
| ·Mixed Sensations | 第42-44页 |
| ·Differences Between English and Chinese Synaesthesia | 第44-45页 |
| ·Causes for the Similarities and Differences | 第45-47页 |
| ·Cognitive Universality | 第45-46页 |
| ·Cultural Relativity | 第46-47页 |
| ·Summary | 第47-50页 |
| Chapter 5 Applications of Synaesthesia | 第50-58页 |
| ·Synaesthesia and Advertisements | 第50-52页 |
| ·Synaesthesia and Teaching | 第52-54页 |
| ·Synaesthesia and Translation | 第54-55页 |
| ·Summary | 第55-58页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第58-62页 |
| Bibliography | 第62-66页 |
| Appendix: Papers Published During the Postgraduate Program | 第66页 |
