进博会讲话中的国家隐喻

Analysis of Conceptual Metaphors in President Xi’s Speech on CIIE

作为一种认知工具,概念隐喻被用于抽象类别的概念化。在政治文本中使用概念隐喻不仅可以重建人类意识,而且它也是一种强大的机制,渗透到意识中。政治现实主要通过隐喻来构建,基于习近平主席在进博会上的讲话,尝试分析概念隐喻的应用,试图探究如何通过中国经济是海洋、中国是世界的引擎、国家是人、国家是建筑4种隐喻来构建中国开放进取的形象。

As a cognitive tool, conceptual metaphor is used to conceptualization of abstract categories. Also, the usage of conceptual metaphor in political texts not only lets us rebuild the human consciousness, but it is also a strong mechanism, which penetrates into the consciousness. Therefore, political realities are constructed largely through metaphor. Based on President Xi’s speech on CIIE, this paper tries to analyze the application of conceptual metaphor, in an attempt to find out that how the image of China-open and enterprising-is built through the following four types of metaphor: the Chinese economy as ocean, China as the world’s engine, China as human, and China as building.