基于语料库的商务英语语篇战争隐喻现象研究

A Corpus-based Study on Metaphors of WAR in Business English Discourse

语料库语言学以大量、真实的语言数据为研究对象,为商务英语语篇的隐喻研究提供了有效的实证研究工具。文章采用自建商务英语语料库,在认知隐喻理论的框架下,识别、统计战争隐喻关键词的使用情况,结果显示战争隐喻密度为每千词3.29,可见战争隐喻在商务语篇中的应用之广泛。战争隐喻从战争冲突、战略手段、战争目标、战略物资四个方面在商务语篇中形成了严密完整的语义投射系统。

Corpus linguistics takes a large number of authentic language data as the research object,which provides an effective empirical research tool for metaphor research in Business English Discourse. This paper employs a self-built business English corpus to identify and count the use of WAR metaphor keywords within the framework of cognitive metaphor theory. The result shows that the density of WAR metaphor is 3.29 per thousand words,which implicates that WAR metaphor is widely used in business discourse. WAR metaphor forms a complete semantic projection system in business discourse from four aspects:conflict,strategic means,objectives and strategic materials.