基于冬奥会语料库的国家转喻研究

A Corpus-Based Study on the National Metonymy in the News Reports on Beijing Olympic Winter Games

自建小型冬奥会语料库,结合定量和定性研究方法,从概念转喻视角分析China Daily冬奥会官方英文会刊中的新闻语篇,探究其中的国家转喻对中国的国家形象构建所起到的积极作用。结果表明,China Daily关于北京冬奥会的报道中主要包括国家代政府,国家代人,国家代组织和首都代政府4种国家转喻形式。China Daily中大量的国家转喻构建了我国积极的大国形象,其关于China和Beijing的国家转喻彰显了我国作为主办国的大国形象,以及北京作为主办城市的国际形象。

This paper built a small corpus of the Beijing Olympic Winter Games to explore the positive role of national metonymy in the construction of the image of China.Combining both quantitative and qualitative research methods,it analyzed the news discourse on Beijing Olympic Winter Games in China Daily from the perspective of conceptual metonymy.The results showed that China Daily’s news reports on Beijing Winter Olympic Games mainly included four forms of national metonymy:nation for government,nation for people,nation for organization and capital for government.A large number of national metonymies in China Daily made contribution to the construction of the positive image of China.The national metonymies with the word“China”and“Beijing”highlighted the image of China as a great and powerful host country and the international image of Beijing as the host city.