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Acknowledgements
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 The Significance of the study
1.2 Background and Objectives of the Study
1.3 Layout of the Thesis
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 Lakoff and Brugman's Study on Spatial Grams
2.2 Leonard Talmy's Study on Space
2.3 Levinson's Research about Space
Chapter Three The Evolution of Spatial Grams
3.1 The Theoretical Framework of Grammaticalization
3.1.1 The Properties of Grammaticalization
3.1.2 The Principles of Grammaticalization
3.2 Lexical Sources of Spatial Grams
3.2.1 Body Parts
3.2.2 Environmental Landmarks
3.2.3 Relational Object Parts
3.2.4 Summary
3.3 The Semantic Basis of Spatial Grams
3.4 The Mechanism of the Grammaticalization of Spatial Grams
Chapter Four The Embodied Nature of Spatial Grams
4.1 Spatial Grams are Embodied
4.1.1 Embodiment
4.1.2 The Embodiment of Spatial Grams
4.2 The Embodied Nature of Image Schema
4.2.1 The Phenomenological Grounding of Image Schema
4.2.2 The Neural Grounding of Image Schema
4.3 The Embodied Nature of Metaphor
4.3.1 The Experiential Basis of Metaphor
4.3.2 The Neural Basis of Metaphor
Chapter Five Conclusion
5.1 Major Findings
5.2 Implications
5.3 Limitations and Suggestions
References