声明
DECLARATION
ABSTACT
摘要
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter One INTRODUCTION
Chapter Two LITERATURE REVIEW
2．1 A Critical Survey of Historical Metaphor Studies
2．1．1 The Aristotelian approach：metaphor as a transference of names
2．1．2 The pragmatic approach：metaphor as a special speech act
2．1．3 The interactionist approach：metaphor as an interaction
2．2 Cognitive Linguistic Paradigm
2．2．1 The theory of prototypes and basic-level categories
2．2．2 Philosophical basis of cognitive linguistics：experiential realism
2．3 A Cognitive Approach to Metaphor
2．3．1 The conceptual nature and characteristics of metaphor
2．3．2 Cultural coberence of conceptual metaphor
2．3．3 The internal structure of metaphor：mapping across domains
2．3．4 The classification of metaphor
2．3．5 Historical studies of metaphor adopting the cognitive approach
2．3．6 Space，image schemas，and CONTAINER metaphor
2．3．7 Recent studies of CONTAINER metaphor
2．3．8 Research issues：IN，OUT,LI and WAI as image-schematic concepts
Chapter Three RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3．1 From Concept to Word
3．2 The Dictionary-based Approach and the Corpus-based Approach for Data-collection
Chapter Four RESULTS AND DISCUSSION：SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ENGLISH AND CHINESE IN CONTAINER METAPHORS
4．1 Quantitative Analysis
4．2 Qualitative Analysis
4．2．1 Bodily experiences of CONTAINER metaphor
4．2．2 Physiological phenomena and functions as containers
4．2．3 Spatial containers
4．2．4 Metaphorical extensions of spatial container
4．3 Summary
Chapter Five CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
APPENDIX Ⅰ FREQUENCY OF WORDS IN THE CORPUS
APPENDIX Ⅱ INTRoDUCTION OF THE CORPORA
APPENDIX Ⅲ RART oF THE CHINESE CORPUS
APPENDIX Ⅳ PART OF THE ENGLISH CORPUS
