本书内容以英语介词的学习为研究对象，基于意象图示的隐喻拓展等相关语言学和心理学理论设计教学实验，通过图像信息减轻认知负荷，采用认知心理语言学的设计方法和手段，用实证方法对英语教学提供借鉴进而提升学习效果。

宋昕，德国科布伦茨-兰道大学博士，现就职于大连民族大学外国语学院，任公共外语教研室副主任，专事实验语言心理学(认知语言学)理论研究和英语教学，主持多项省级科研项目，发表过多篇专著和研究论文。

Part Ⅰ English Prepositions and Related Research Strands
Chapter 1 Research Objectives: in, on, at
Chapter 2 Research Strands in Teaching: Rote Learning vs. Meaningful Learning
Chapter 3 Cognitive Linguistic Framework for English Prepositions
3.1 Domains: the foundation of illustrating prepositional senses
3.1.1 The definition of the concept domain
3.1.2 Domains for English prepositions
3.2 Image Schema: the concrete structure, to extend to
abstract prepositional senses
3.2.1 The definition of image schemas
3.2.2 Properties of image schemas
3.2.3 Categorization of image schemas
3.2.4 Concepts illustrated by image schemas
3.2.5 The image schemas of in, on and at
3.2.6 Summary
3.3 Metaphor: the mechanism of cross-domain mappings
3.3.1 Conceptual metaphor
3.3.2 The nature of metaphor
3.3.3 The structure of metaphor
3.3.4 Structure the abstract senses of prepositions by
metaphor
Chapter 4 Summary
Part Ⅱ Design of Teaching and Experiments
Chapter 5 Methodology of the Pilot Study: Test of Item
Difficulties
5.1 Material
5.2 Participants
5.3 Study procedure
5.4 Analyses
5.5 Summary
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Part Ⅲ Experimental Analyses and Results
Part Ⅳ Finding and Discussions
Part Ⅴ Conclusion
References
Appendix
Declaration
Acknowledgements