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Introduction
Chapter1 A Brief Review of Traditional Views on Tense of the English Verb
1.1 Tense in English as a grammatical category
1.2 Contemporary views on tense of the English verb
1.2.1 Multi-tense views
1.2.2 Bi-tense view
1.3 Deficiencies of contemporary views on tense of the English verb
1.4 Summary
Chapter 2 Metaphor
2.1 A brief review of metaphor study
2.2 Image schema
2.3 Metaphorical mapping
2.4 Summary
Chapter 3 Past Tense—A Tense of Distance
3.1 Metaphorical mapping from space to time to tense
3.2 The original use of the past tense
3.3 Metaphorical extensions of the past tense
3.3.1 Past tense in truth-value domain
3.3.2 Past tense in psychology domain
3.4 Summary
Chapter 4 Present Tense—A Tense of Connectiveness
4.1 Definition of the present time
4.2 Nature of the present tense
4.3 The original use of the present tense
4.4 Metaphorical extensions of the present tense
4.4.1 Present tense in truth-value domain
4.4.2 Present tense in psychology domain
4.5 Summary
Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix
Acknowledgements