隐喻在政治新闻语篇中运用的可行性探讨

On the Feasibility of Application of Metaphor in Political News Discourse

隐喻作为一种较为常见的语言现象,在人类的认知中具有重要的作用,因此被广泛应用于政治语篇中用以说服群众,引起共鸣,从而达到服从自己的功效。国内外学者已对西方政治语篇进行了较为详细地分析。本文从认知角度分析《人民日报》元旦社论中的概念隐喻,通过对文章中概念隐喻的分类和功能分析,探讨政治隐喻与时代和国家所处环境的关系,从分析时代和国家所处环境的变化中探究政治隐喻在语篇中所起的作用。

This article is about the diachronic study of metaphors in People＇s Daily, especially about the function of conceptual metaphors from the perspective of cognitive linguistics. Metaphors, as a common language phenomenon, play an important role in human cognition. Metaphors are widely used in political discourses to persuade people into accepting the speakers＇ ideas. The scholars at home and abroad have already analyzed the western political discourses. The purpose of this article is to analyze and categorize conceptual metaphors from the perspective of cognitive linguistics to discuss the relation between political metaphors and the times and the environment where the country is. In addition, the function of political metaphors will be studied in the article.