中美报纸政治新闻语篇中情态隐喻使用的对比研究

Contrastive Analysis of the Frequencies of Modality Metaphors in Political News Discourse in American and Chinese Newspapers

以Halliday的隐喻理论为基础,采取定量和定性的研究方法,对中美报纸政治新闻语篇中情态隐喻使用的频率进行对比研究。结果显示:中美报纸政治新闻中情态隐喻使用的频率均不高,在对国内政治新闻的报道中,中美报纸使用显性主观和显性客观的情态隐喻频率基本相同,但是在对国外政治新闻的报道中,情态隐喻使用频率出现一定差异。针对这一现象,从情态隐喻的语用功能和政治新闻语言的特点及其写作策略等方面分析出现的原因。

Based on method, this article makes Halliday＇s metaphor theory and adopting the quantity and quality research a contrastive analysis of political news discourse in American and Chinese newspapers in terms of the frequencies of modality metaphors. It is shown that both data have lower frequencies of modality metaphors and the ones of explicit subjective and explicit objective share almost the same frequencies between American and Chinese newspapers about domestic political news. However, metaphors of modality are to some extent differently used in both data when concerning international political news. And then the causes functions of modality metaphor and the of above phenomenon are explored with regard language features as well as the writing strategies to the pragmatic of political news.