本书主要介绍了发现情感隐喻与身体生理学和文化之间的相互作用。这种相互作用是词汇化的情感隐喻在英汉语中的共时和历时变化的基础。本书共分五章。第一章回溯了概念隐喻理论和它的发展；第二章进一步从符号认知的角度来分析隐喻与语源的关系；第三章发现了一些与概念隐喻理论不太一致的现象；第四章对第三章中出现的隐喻跨语言变化提供历时解读，通过观察英汉语言文化中情感隐喻的历史发展；

本书开创了用符号学和认知隐喻理论来研究英汉词汇中词源结构的新途径，对概念隐喻理论的未来发展具有重要意义。

Preface (in Chinese)

Typographical Conventions

List of Abbreviations

List of Numbered Tables and Figures

Chapter 1 Introduction

  1.0 Metaphor and Metaphor Studies

  1.1 Definition of Metaphors

  1.2 Theoretical Background of Metaphor Studies

  1.3 Emotion and Emotion Metaphors

  1.4 The Major Contents and Goals of the Present Study

  1.5 Database and Methodology

Chapter 2 Metaphor and Etymology

  2.0 Introduction

  2.1 Metaphors in Etymology

 2.1.1 Metaphors in Chinese Etymology

 2.1.2 Metaphors in English Etymology

  2.2 Concluding Remarks

Chapter 3 Corpus-based Synchronic Comparisons of Lexicalized Emotion Metaphors in English and Chinese

  3.0 Introduction

  3.1 Further Methodological Details of the Synchronic Study

  3.2 Results

3.2.1 Common Emotion Metaphor Themes in English and Chinese

3.2.2 Muhivalency and Diversification

3.2.3 Conceptualization of Emotions

3.2.4 Interplay of Culture and Body and the Metonymic Basis of Emotion Metaphors

3.2.5 Cross-linguistic Differences and Universalities of LEMS in English and Chinese

 3.3 Discussion: Non-universality in Emotion Metaphors and Its Reasons

3.3.1 Lack of Exact Target Concept in One Culture/Language as Exists in Another

3.3.2 Lack of Exact Source Concept in One Culture/Language as Exists in Another

3.3.3 Differences in the Pairing of Target and Source

3.3.4 Different Grounds or Partial Mapping of Potential Correspondences

3.3.5 General Identity of Pairing with Specific Differences

 3.4 Conclusions

Chapter 4 Diachronic Comparisons of LEMS in English and Chinese

 4.0 Introduction

 4.1 The Concepts of Emotions in Chinese

4.1.1 Emotion as a Native-born Concept in Chinese

4.1.2 Cultural Influences on the Conceptualization of Emotions

4.1.3 Concluding Remarks for This Section

 4.2 The Concept of Emotions in English with Reference to its Chinese Counterpart情

4.2.1 Understanding the Emotion Concept in the West

4.2.2 The Cultural Influences on Emotion Metaphors

4.2.3 The Humoral Interpretation of Emotions in the West Compared with Yin-yang

  4.3 Diachronic Interpretations of Cultural Variations in LEMS in English and Chinese

4.3.1 EMOTION IS BODY

4.3.2 EMOTION IS COLOUR

4.3.3 ANGER IS HEAT

4.3.4 ANGER IS COLDNESS

 4.4 Concluding Remarks

Chapter 5 Conclusions and Reflections

Bibliography

Main Index

Appendix

Part One : Corresponding Metaphor Themes of Lexicalized EmotionMetaphors in English and Chinese

Part Two: Other Tables