中国形象的隐喻架构分析--以《经济学人》社会法制类报道为例

A Metaphorical Framing Analysis of China’s National Image Examplified by the Social and Legal Reports of The Economist

本文选取2016年《经济学人》关于社会法制方面的报道为语料,运用MIPVU隐喻识别机制及概念隐喻理论的映射原理,识别并归纳了语篇中的隐喻性架构,再运用架构理论对语篇中的隐喻架构进行深层分析。研究发现,表层架构上,各隐喻性架构的使用体现了不同的侧重点;深层架构上,外媒对中国婚姻和生育政策、老龄化问题和城市化进程方面的评价与报道多为消极,不利于国家形象的建构。本文希望帮助读者更好地理解媒体报道中蕴含的价值观和态度,并为中国国家形象的自塑提供借鉴。

Taking the report on social and legal of the economist in 2016 as the corpus, this paper identifies and summarizes the metaphorical system of the corpus by using MIPVU and the mapping principle of Conceptual Metaphor Theory. The deep analysis on the metaphorical frames are made based on the Framing Theory. It is found that, for the surface frames, the use of metaphorical frames reflects different emphases. For the deep frames, foreign media mostly give negative comments and reports on marriage and fertility policy, aging problem and urbanization process, which is not conducive to the construction of the national image. This paper can help readers better understand the values and attitudes contained in media reports, and provide guidance for the self shaping of China’ s national image.