Chapter 1 The History of Metaphor Research
1.1 Metaphor in Poetics and Epistemology
1.2 Stable Metaphor in English Lingual Culture
1.3 The Conventional Metaphor and Meta-metaphor
Chapter 2 English Metaphors with Nature Elements
2.1 Metaphors with Nature Elements in Beowulf.
2.2 The Categorization of Metaphor Within the Five-element Framework
2.3 Comparison Between English and Chinese National Mentality Through Metaphor Analysis
Chapter 3 Metaphors Derived from the Five Elements
3.1 Metaphors with "Root" Image (Derived from Metaphors with the Wood Element)
3.2 Metaphors with "House" Image (Derived from Metaphors with the Earth Element)
3.3 Conclusion of Chapter 3
Chapter 4 English Love Metaphors with Concrete Images
4.1 Love Is Danger
4.2 Love Is Protection
4.3 Love Is Light
4.4 Love Is Natural Cataclysm
4.5 Love Is a Journey
4.6 Love Is the Source of Life
Chapter 5 Emotion Metaphors with "Life" as a Target Domain..
5.1 Human & Emotion Is Wildlife
5.2 Human & Nature and Wildlife
Chapter 6 Love Metaphors with Abstract Concepts
6.1 Metaphors with Concrete Object Component as the Target
6.2 Love Is the Way to Wholeness
6.3 Love Is Unity
6.4 Love Is Time
6.5 Love Is Power
Chapter 7 The Contrastive Cognitive Analysis of Emotion Metaphors Between English and Chinese
7.1 Theoretical Framework for Spatial-temporal Cognition and Metaphor Analysis
7.2 Spatial-temporal Contrast in Plant Conceptualization Through Metaphor Analysis
7.3 Spatial-temporal Cognition Contrast in Plant Conceptualization.
Chapter 8 The Analysis of Love Metaphors in Chinese Poetry
8.1 The Comparative Analysis Between English and Chinese Cognition Reflected Through Love Metaphors in Poetry
8.2 A Hypothesized Explanatory Cognitive Model
Chapter 9 The Analysis of Anger Metaphors and" 气 (qi)" Image Within the Five-element Framework
9.1 Traditional Chinese Medicine's Influence on Emotion Conceptualization
9.2 The Categorization of" 气 (qi)" in Huangdi Neijing
9.3 The Interpretation of Anger Metaphor Within the Five-element Framework
Chapter 10 Corpus Analysis of Emotion Metaphors in English and Chinese
10.1 Corpus Analysis of"Root" Metaphor
10.2 Corpus Search and Statistical Analysis of Plant Metaphors
10.3 Corpus Analysis of Anger Metaphor with" 气 (qi)" Image
Conclusion
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