Abstract
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Background
1.1.1 The real estate market in China
1.1.2 English news reports in China
1.1.3 Cognitive science
1.2 Research questions and objectives
1.3 Outline of the thesis
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 Metaphor in the cognitive paradigm
2.1.1 Category,prototype and schema
2.1.2 Frame and metaphor
2.1.3 Relevance theory
