英汉新闻语篇隐喻表征的比较研究——以奥运经济隐喻表征为例

A Comparative Analysis of Metaphorical Representations in English and Chinese Media Discourse:A Case Study of Olympic Economy

作为一种较隐蔽的语篇表征策略,隐喻表征左右着社团成员对所表征源域概念的理解,是新闻语篇再现和强化现存社会结构的有效途径。本文对比分析英汉新闻语篇中奥运经济的隐喻表征,显示双方具有相同的出现频率最高的四类隐喻模式,反映了它们宏观上共有的发展和竞争思维模式,以及西方价值观对处于经济转型时期中国社会的影响。而相同隐喻模式构建的不同概念场景以及独特的英汉隐喻模式折射出英汉不同的经济理念和奥运经济视角,帮助我们挖掘出相同宏观模式所不能揭示的英汉奥运经济隐喻表征上的差异。研究加强了批评语篇分析中的认知解释环节,同时拓宽了隐喻比较研究的视角。

As a comparatively implicit strategy of discourse rep- resentation, the metaphorical representation could manipulate the community＇s understanding of the represented source domains and thus becomes an effective channel in media discourse to re- flect and strengthen the existing societal structure. A compara- tive analysis of the metaphorical representation of Olympic e- conomy between English and Chinese media discourse demon- strates that they share the four most frequent metaphorical pat- terns, which reveals their common developmental and competi- tive mentality of Olympic economy and indicates the influence of associated western values on China in its economic transfor- marion. However, diverse scenarios constructed in a common metaphorical pattern and particular English and Chinese meta- phorical patterns reflect their different economic ideologies and disparate perspectives of Olympic economy. This enables us to unearth their differences in the metaphorical representation of O- lympic economy that are concealed by their shared macro pat- terns. Such analysis may strengthen the cognitive explanation in critical discourse analysis and simultaneously broadens the per- spective to carry out comparative studies on metaphor.