文摘
英文文摘
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
List of Tables
Chapter One INTRODUCTION
1.1 Need for the Study
1.2 Structure of the Thesis
Chapter Two LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 Movement Metaphor
2.1.1 Theory of Conceptual Metaphor
2.1.2 Definition and Classification of Movement Metaphors
2.2 Corpus
2.2.1 The Definition of Corpus
2.2.2 The Application of Corpus
2.3 Previous Studies of Movement Metaphors
2.3.1 Corpus-based Studies
2.3.2 Non-corpus-based Studies
Chapter Three RESEARCH METHOD
3.1 Research Ouestions
3.2 Corpus Description
3.3 Corpus Analysis Procedure
Chapter Four RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS
4.1 Distributioin Patterns of Movement Metaphors
4.1.1 Defining Use of Metaphors
4.1.2 Use of Movement Metaphors
4.2 Classification of Movement Metaphors
4.2.1 Classification as per Process
4.2.2 Classification as per Source Domain
4.3 Changes in Different Situations
4.3.1 Bear
4.3.2 Attack
4.3.3 Emerge
Chapter Five CONCLUSIONS
5.1 Findingss
5.2 Some Implications
5.3 Limitations of the Present Study
References
Appendix