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英文文摘
声明
Acknowledgements
Chapter One Introduction
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 Traditional Studies of Metaphor
2.1.1 Rhetoric View
2.1.2 Interaction View
2.1.3 Pragmatic View
2.2 Cognitive Studies of Metaphor
2.2.1 Cognitive Nature of Metaphor
2.2.2 Cognitive Functions of Metaphor
2.2.3 The Theory of Conceptual Domains Projection
Chapter Three Animals and Animal Metaphors
3.1 Animals and Their Relationships with Human Beings
3.2 Levels of Categorization of Animal Words
3.2.1.Basic-Level Category
3.2.2.Super Ordinate Category
3.2.3.Subordinate Category
3.3.Conceptual Metaphor HUMAN IS ANIMAL
Chapter Four Conceptual Metaphor HUMAN IS ANIMAL in English and Chinese
4.1 The Same Human Traits with the Same or Different Animals in the Two Languages
4.1.1 The Same Human Traits with the Same Animals
4.1.2 The Same Human Traits with Different Animals
4.2 The Same Animals for Similar or Different Human Traits in the Two Languages
4.2.1 The Same Animals for Only Similar Human Traits
4.2.2 The Same Animals for Similar Human Traits and More Traits in English
4.2.3 The Same Animals for Similar Human Traits and More Traits in Chinese
4.2.4 The Same Animals for Similar Human Traits and Different Ones
4.2.5 The Same Animals for Only Different Human Traits
4.2.6 Peculiar Animal Metaphors in the Two Languages
Chapter Five Causes of the Similarities and Differences
5.1 Causes of the Similarities
5.2 Causes of the Differences
5.2.1 Different Natural and Physical Environment
5.2.2 Different Traditional Cultures
5.2.3 Different Cultural Psychologies
5.2.4 Different Perspectives
Chapter Six Conclusion
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