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Abstract in English |
3-4 |
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Abstract in Chinese |
4-5 |
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Contents |
5-7 |
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Introduction |
7-10 |
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Chapter 1 Theories of Metaphor |
10-15 |
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1.1 Comparison Theory and Substitution Theory |
11 |
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1.2 Interaction Theory |
11-12 |
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1.3 Conceptual Metaphor Theory |
12-15 |
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Chapter 2 TheoreticalBasisoftheThesis |
15-22 |
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2.1 Cognitive Nature of Metaphor |
15 |
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2.2 WorkingMechanismofMetaphor:Cross-domainMapping |
15-17 |
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2.3 Cognitive Functions of Metaphor |
17-20 |
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2.3.1 An Important Means of Understanding the World |
18 |
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2.3.2 An Essential Way of Conceptualizing Experience |
18-19 |
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2.3.3 ACognitive Tool in Creating New Meanings |
19-20 |
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2.4 Culture Reflected in Metaphor |
20-22 |
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Chapter 3 Body Metaphors in English and Chinese |
22-35 |
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3.1 ResearchDesignandDataCollection |
22-23 |
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3.2 Cognition of Body Metaphor |
23-26 |
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3.2.1 Working Mechanism of Body Metaphor |
23-24 |
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3.2.2 Features of Body Metaphor |
24-26 |
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3.2.2.1 Analogy in thinking |
24-25 |
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3.2.2.2 DirectionalandPartialinMapping |
25 |
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3.2.2.3 Contradiction and Fixation in Meaning |
25-26 |
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3.2.2.4 Repetition in use |
26 |
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3.3 Mapping Models of Body Metaphor |
26-33 |
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3.3.1 Mapping from Body Domain to Non-body Domain |
27-30 |
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3.3.1.1 Mappingfrom BodyDomain to Concrete Non-bodyDomain |
27-29 |
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3.3.1.2 Mapping from Body Domain to Abstract Non-body Domain |
29-30 |
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3.3.2 Mapping from Non-body Domain to Body Domain |
30-31 |
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3.3.3 Mapping Between two Body Parts |
31-32 |
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3.3.4 Mapping from Relationship Between Different Body Parts to Relationship Between Things or Persons |
32-33 |
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3.4 The Corresponding Degree |
33-35 |
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Chapter 4 Causes for the Similarities and Differences |
35-38 |
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4.1 Cognitive Universality |
35-36 |
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4.2 Cultural Relativity |
36-38 |
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Conclusion |
38-40 |
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Bibliography |
40-42 |
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Acknowledgement |
42 |
