文档介绍：湘潭大学
硕士学位论文
经济新闻语篇中隐喻的使用及其功能
姓名:熊妮
申请学位级别:硕士
专业:英语语言文学
指导教师:曾葡初
20060501
English Abstract
English Abstract
For 2000 years or more, metaphor has been a heated topic among
philosophers, stylists and linguists. The traditional rhetoricians viewed metaphor
as decorative in nature and independent of human cognition. Therefore, the
study of metaphor is mainly confined to the realm of literary works. However,
metaphor studies have gone radical changes in modern times. With the rising of
cognitive linguistics, the Conceptual Metaphor Theory emerges in which
metaphor is viewed as the product of bodily experience and a main mechanism
for human to perform abstract reasoning prehend abstract concepts. It is
based on the cognitive view of metaphor that this thesis studies metaphors in
non-literary texts with special reference to economic news.
In this study, a large number of metaphorical expressions from economic
news are collected and classified in accordance with their source domains. Six
types of conceptual metaphors in economic news from China Daily and
Business Weekly are classified and analyzed with supporting details, ., journey
metaphor, war metaphor, human being metaphor, machine metaphor, game
metaphor and container metaphor. In the following part, the study shows that
metaphor in economic news serves several important functions, such as
informative function, culture-reflective function, naming function, and
pedagogical function.
The present study aims to testify the Conceptual Metaphor Theory, .
abstract concept is mainly formulated prehended through metaphor, and
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to further prove that metaphor is multi-functional. This research will contribute
to a better understanding of economic news and certain economic activities.
Key Words: conceptual metaphor; economic news;function
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