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Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Research orientation
1.2 Research rationale
1.3 Scope of the study
1.4 Structure of the study
Chapter 2 Defining metaphorical categorization
2.1 The nature of ¡°An x is a y.¡±
2.2 Conventional categorization
2.3 Metaphorical categorization
Chapter 3 Literature review
3.1 The relation between metaphor and category
3.1.1 A cognitive linguistic perspective
3.1.2 A psycholinguistic perspective
3.2 Studies on metaphorical categorization
3.2.1 Mediator of metaphorical categorization
3.2.2 Measuring metaphorical categorization: experimental paradigms and major findings
3.2.3 The process of metaphorical categorization: gestalt transformation
3.3 Remaining problems
Chapter 4 Research framework
4.1 Research questions
4.2 Theoretical framework
4.2.1 Mediator of metaphorical categorization: similarity
4.2.2 Attributive similarity vs. relational similarity
4.2.3 Schema induction as categorization
4.3 Working hypotheses
4.3.1 An Analogical approach to metaphor categorization
4.3.2 The dual-categorization account of metaphor
4.4 Empirical research design
Chapter 5 Study I: the mediator of metaphorical categorization
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Exp 1: the correlation between relational similarity and grammatical preference
5.2.1 Research aim
5.2.2 Hypothesis
5.2.3 Method
5.2.4 Results
5.2.5 Discussion
5.3 Summary
Chapter 6 Study ¢ò: the core process of metaphorical categorization
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Exp 2: the micro-categorization process
6.2.1 Research aim
6.2.2 Design logic and hypothesis
6.2.3 Method
6.2.4 Resnlte
6.2.5 Discussion
6.2.6 Summary
6.3 Exp 3: the macro-categorization process
6.3.1 Exp 3a: the gaining of the abstract referent in the vehicle: a time course study
6.3.2 Exp 3b: abstract schema induction in the vehicle: a vitro study
6.4 Summary
Chapter 7 Study ¢ó: duality of metaphorical categorization
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Exp 4: conventionality,aptness and stroopian interference effect
7.2.1 Research aim
7.2.2 Design logic and hypothesis
7.2.3 Method
7.2.4 Results
7.2.5 Discussion
7.3 Summary
Chapter 8 General discussion
8.1 Summary of the empirical findings
8.2 Theoretical reflections and evaluations
8.2.1 Metaphor and fluidity of categorization
8.2.2 The nature of metaphorical category: relational category
8.2.3 Metaphor-simile distinction revisited
8.2.4 Metaphorical vs. conventional categorization: different or equal
8.2.5 Philosophical implications for cognitive linguistics
8.3 Pedagogical reflections and evaluations
8.3.1 Implications for the notion of metaphorical competence
8.3.2 Implications for lexical teaching
8.4 Summary
Chapter 9 Conclusion
9.1 Conclusions
9.2 Limitations and recommendations for future research
References
Appendices
Appendix I: the questionnaire for the similarity rating in Exp 1
Appendix II: result of similarity rating in Exp 1
Appendix III: the questionnaire for the gram matical form preference¡¡rating in Exp 1
Appendix IV: scores for the grammatical form rating in Exp 1
Appendix V: metaphorical wordset generating questionnaire in Exp 2
Appendix VI: metaphorical wordset generating questionnaire for category¡¡targets in Exp 2
Appendix VII: metaphorical wordset generating questionnaire for¡¡semantically associated targets in Exp 2
Appendix VIII: critical metaphorical wordsets and their corresponding¡¡targets used in Exp 2
Appendix IX: metaphor pairs and their similarity rating scores in¡¡Exp 3a
Appendix X: metaphor pairs and their corresponding target words (with frequency scores)used in Exp 3a
Appendix XI: materials used for the learning phase in Exp 3b
Appendix XII : four lists of materials for four