The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Contemporary Theory: A Review -- 2.1. Views of metaphor: Classical vs. contemporary -- 2.2. Cognitive linguistics and cognitive semantics -- 2.3. Conceptual and linguistic metaphors and metaphor systems -- 2.4. Experiential basis of metaphor: The notion of embodiment -- 2.5. Image schemas and the Invariance Principle -- 2.6. Conventional and novel metaphors -- 2.7. Summary of findings of the contemporary theory -- 2.8. Criticisms of the contemporary theory -- 2.9. Questions faced by the contemporary theory -- Chapter 3. Emotion Metaphors -- 3.1. Language of emotions -- 3.2. Anger metaphors in English -- 3.3. Anger metaphors in Chinese -- 3.4. Happiness metaphors in English -- 3.5. Happiness metaphors in Chinese -- 3.6. The underlying model of the metaphors -- 3.7. Summary and discussion -- Chapter 4. The Time as Space Metaphor -- 4.1. Conceptions of space and time -- 4.2. Alverson's cross-cultural and cross-linguistic study -- 4.3. Lakoffs studies in English -- 4.4. Time as space in Chinese -- 4.4.1. Evidence in the lexicon -- 4.4.1.1. The past, the present, and the future -- 4.4.1.2. The verbs in collocation with 'past'and 'future' -- 4.4.1.3. Seemingly contradictory cases -- 4.4.1.4. Spatial terms used in the temporal domain -- 4.4.2. Evidence in the inference patterns -- 4.4.2.1. Case One: time as moving object -- 4.4.2.2. Case Two: time as bounded space -- 4.4.2.3. The duality: mixture of Case One and Case Two -- 4.4.2.4. Another case: time and observer moving in the same direction -- 4.5. Summary and discussion -- Chapter 5. The Event Structure Metaphor -- 5.1. The conception of events -- 5.2. The Event Structure Metaphor in English -- 5.2.1. The location-dual.

5.2.2. The object-dual -- 5.3. The location-version in Chinese -- 5.3.1. States -- 5.3.2. Changes -- 5.3.3. Causes -- 5.3.4. Actions -- 5.3.5. Purposes -- 5.3.6. Means -- 5.3.7. Difficulties -- 5.3.8. Others -- 5.4. The object-version in Chinese -- 5.4.1. Attributes -- 5.4.2. Changes -- 5.4.3. Causes -- 5.4.4. Actions -- 5.4.5. Purposes -- 5.5. Mixture of location-version and object-version -- 5.6. Summary and discussion -- Chapter 6. Conclusion -- Appendix -- The Character Version of the Chinese Examples -- Examples in Chapter 3. -- Examples in Chapter 4. -- Examples in Chapter 5. -- Notes -- Notesto Chapter 1. -- Notes to Chapter 2. -- Notes to Chapter 3. -- Notes to Chapter 4. -- Notes to Chapter 5. -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index.