Metaphor in Political Discourse: A Corpus Based Analysis of China Fighting Against COVID‐19

Jing Shu ； You Shi ； Jiali Guo ； Qiuyang Cai

《World Scientific Research Journal》 7卷7期 (2021/07) Pp. 221-233

https://doi.org/10.6911/WSRJ.202107_7(7).0031

摘要

The outbreak of COVID‐19 in 2020 brought unprecedented disaster to people all over the world. Based on the theory of metaphor and the framing theory, corpus based research is used to summarize the metaphors in China's Leader Xi Jinping's speech about COVID‐19 in 2020, and analyzes its cognitive and pragmatic functions. The results show that the metaphors used by Xi Jinping can be divided in 8 categories, the frequency of which from high to low are the metaphorical framing of war, human, road, natural phenomenon, daily necessities, family, literature and art, religious belief. This study takes an good example of revealing the underlying cultural schema of Chinese from the perspective of the use of metaphor in the face of COVID‐19, which can provide a reference case for studying the potential cultural schema of other countries.

關鍵字

COVID‐19 ； Discourse analysis ； Cultural schema ； Metaphor framing ； Chinese ； Corpus

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