封面
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英文摘要
中文摘要
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Research Background
1.2 Research Objectives
1.3 Significance of the Present Study
1.4 Organization of the Thesis
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 Previous Researches on Polysemy of English Prepositions
2.2 Previous Researches on Polysemy of English Prepositions from the Cognitive Perspective
Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework
3.1 Brief Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics
3.2 The Theory of Prototypes
3.3 Image Schema
3.4 Metaphor
3.5 Radial Networks
Chapter 4 Methodology
4.1 Research Questions
4.2 Procedure
Chapter 5 A Cognitive Analysis of Preposition to
5.1 Distinct Senses of the Preposition to in Dictionaries
5.2 The Prototypical Sense and Prototypical Image Schema of the Preposition to
5.3 Two Variants of the Prototypical Image Schema of the Preposition to
5.4 Analysis of Sense Extensions of Preposition to
Chapter 6 Results and Discussion
Chapter 7 Conclusions
7.1 Conclusion
7.2 Limitation of the study
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