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Acknowledgements
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 The Reading of Time
1.1.1 Formal Treatments of Time
1.1.2 The Characteristics of Time
1.2 The Relationship Between Time andSpace
1.3 The Objective and Significance of This Study
1.4 The Organization of the Thesis
Chapter Two Cognitive Approach to Metaphor: A Literature Review
2.1 Views of Metaphor: Classical vs. Contemporary
2.2 Conceptual Metaphors and Metaphor Systems
2.2.1 The Systematicity of Conceptual Metaphors
2.2.2 Metaphor Inheritance Hierarchies
2.2.3 Image Schemas
2.2.4 Invariance Principle
2.3 Experiential Basis of Metaphor
2.4 Summary
Chapter Three The Study of TIME AS SPACE Metaphor in English
3.1 Alverson's Cross-cultural and Cross-linguistic Model
3.2 The Metaphorization of Time: Lakoff's Model
3.2.1 The Time Orientation Metaphor
3.2.2 The Moving Time Metaphor
3.2.3 The Moving Observer Metaphor
3.2.4 Two Special Cases
3.3 Summary
Chapter Four Spatialization of Time Metaphors in Chinese
4.1 Evidencein Lexicon
4.1.1 The Past in Chinese Lexicon
4.1.2 The Present in Chinese Lexicon
4.1.3 The Future in Chinese Lexicon
4.1.4 The Verbsin Collocation with “past”
4.1.5 The Verbs in Collocation with “future”
4.1.6 “lai” and “qian”: Two Contradictory Cases
4.1.7 “shang”/“xia”: Two Spatial Terms Used in the Temporal Domain
4.2 Evidence in the Inference Patterns
4.2.1 Case 1: Time as Moving Object
4.2.2 Case 2: Time as Bounded Space
4.2.3 The Duality: Mixture of Two Special Cases
4.3 Summary
Chapter Five Conclusion
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