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Acknowledgments
Chapter One Introduction
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 Metaphor
2.1.1 Rhetoric View
2.1.2 Other Views
2.1.3 Cognitive Approach
2.2 Emotion Metaphor
2.3 Sadness Metaphor
Chapter Three Conceptual Metaphor
3.1 Linguistic Metaphor vs. Conceptual Metaphor
3.2 Mapping
3.3 Image-schema
3.4 The Notion of Embodiment
3.5 Metaphor and Metonymy
3.6 Personification
Chapter Four Conceptualization of Sadness Metaphor
4.1 Basic Emotion Categories
4.2 Conceptualization of Sadness Metaphor in English
4.3 Conceptualization of Sadness Metaphor in Chinese
4.4 Emotion Chain and Overlapping
Chapter Five Perceiving Sadness Metaphor
5.1 Contrastive Study of Conceptualization of Sadness Metaphor between Chinese and English
5.2 Shared experience
5.2.1 Consistency in Metonymy
5.2.2 Consistency in Metaphor
5.2.3 Embodied Conceptual Structures
5.3 Cultural Variation
5.3.1 Cultural Context
5.3.2 The Theory of Yin-yang and Five Elements in Chinese Philosophy
5.3.3 Union of Heaven and Human vs. Binary of Subject and Object
5.4 Language and Culture
Chapter Six Conclusion
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