转喻在报刊英语中的语义表征和语用功能

The study of semantic representation and pragmatic function of metonymy in journalist English

转喻作为一种比隐喻更为基本的认知方式,近年来,其研究越来越成熟。报刊英语有时新性、简洁、生动等特点,是鲜活的语言文本。本文以报刊英语为语料,对报刊语言中包含的转喻现象、转喻的语义表征和语用功能进行较全面的分析,深化转喻的研究领域,更有助于我们更好的解读报刊信息。

Metonymy is not only seen as an important conceptual cognitive means as metaphor,but also the grounding of metonymic concepts is in general more obvious than is the case with metaphoric concepts. Journalist English,popular,concise and vivid,serves as vibrant language text. This paper analyzes the cases of metonymy in journalist English,further points out the semantic representation and pragmatic function of metonymy in it,which on the one hand widens the study of metonymy,and helps interpret the underlined information in the news reports on the other hand.