封面
声明
英文摘要
中文摘要
目录
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 Metaphor Theories
2.2 Corpus Application in Linguistic Studies
2.3 Corpus Application in the Study of Metaphors
Chapter 3 Research Methods and Procedures
3.1 Building the Corpus of American Presidents’ Inaugural Addresses
3.2 Specifying search words
3.3 Extracting data
3.4 Conducting statistical calculations
Chapter 4 Data Analysis and Interpretation
4.1 the Relevant Aspects of Journey Metaphors
4.1.1 Setting up goals
4.1.2 Confidence
4.1.3 Making attempts
4.1.4 Calling for Action
4.1.5 Encouragement
4.1.6 Facing frustration or barriers
4.1.7 Participants
4.2 Statistics of Journey Metaphors
4.3 Interpretation of Statistics
Chapter 5 Conclusions
参考文献
Appendix Concordance Lines Extracted from the Corpus
致谢