【作者】 杨琳；

【导师】 王湘云；

【作者基本信息】 山东大学 ， 英语语言文学， 2021， 硕士

【摘要】 随着全球化进程加快,良好的国家形象对一个国家的发展愈发重要。我国政府因此高度重视国家形象的构建与传播,做出了一系列重要部署和理论阐述。基于此,国家形象的塑造与传播引起了各界学者的极大关注。要塑造良好的国家形象,语言建构必不可少。隐喻作为一种话语策略,经常被用于新闻报道中以构建国家形象,传达隐喻使用者的情感态度。大量阅览文献后发现,学者大多以政治语篇为研究语料,较少研究经济报道中隐喻构建的中国国家形象。此外,以往的隐喻研究多以批评隐喻分析为理论依据。而修辞批评作为与“批评”相关的一种研究范式,也可对隐喻这一修辞行为进行细致的分析。基于以上认识,本文选取2018年1月至2020年12月《经济学人》中的涉华经济报道作为语料来源,建立共计167245字的小型语料库,并基于修辞批评视域下的批评隐喻分析模式对语料库中的隐喻及其塑造的国家形象进行考察,以期回答:(1)《经济学人》涉华经济报道中的隐喻呈现何种分类特点?各分类所占比重如何?(2)隐喻的使用塑造了怎样的中国形象?研究发现,《经济学人》涉华经济报道中存在十三类隐喻,分别是“有机体隐喻”、“战争隐喻”、“旅程隐喻”、“游戏隐喻”、“空间运动隐喻”、“建筑隐喻”、“舞台隐喻”、“液体隐喻”、“容器隐喻”、“机械隐喻”、“家庭隐喻”、“颜色隐喻”及其他隐喻。通过对各类隐喻分析后发现,《经济学人》杂志主要塑造了“中国的经济发展不均衡”、“中国是美国的竞争对手与敌人,中国的经济发展损害其他国家的利益”等负面形象。同时,这一杂志也对中国清洁能源技术发展取得的成就给予肯定,认可中国在环境保护中所作的努力。总体来说,《经济学人》杂志对中国的看法仍充斥着固执的偏见,对中国经济的迅速发展充满恐惧。本文有利于国内媒体进一步了解外媒对中国形象的隐喻建构手段,从而积极主动、有效地运用话语策略,在国际话语体系中构建良好的国家形象。对读者而言,揭示涉华经济报道中中国国家形象隐喻建构背后所蕴含的修辞动机,能帮助其对看似客观的新闻报道产生全新的认识,提高其批判性阅读能力。更多还原

【Abstract】 With the acceleration of globalization,a positive national image is becoming more and more important for the development of a country.Therefore,great importance has been attached to the construction and dissemination of China’s national image with a series of significant arrangements as well as theoretical elaborations.Under such circumstances,the research on the construction of national image has without doubt received increasing attention from scholars of various fields.To construct a favorable national image,language is essential.Conceptual metaphor,as a discourse strategy,is widely applied in news reports to construct national image and convey the emotion as well as attitude of metaphor users.After reviewing of previous academic publications,it is found that scholars mainly use political discourse as the research corpus while few studies take China-related economic news reports as data sources when analyzing China’s image constructed by metaphors.In addition,most of the previous researches on conceptual metaphor are based on critical metaphor analysis proposed by Charteris-Black.Rhetorical criticism,as a research paradigm which is related to "criticism," can be utilized to conduct a detailed analysis of metaphor as well.On this basis,this research selects China-related economic news reports in The Economist between January 2018 and December 2020 as data sources and establishes a small corpus with 167,245 words to analyze conceptual metaphors and China’s national image constructed by them,which attempts to answer the following questions:(1)What are the categories of conceptual metaphor used in China-related economic news reports in The Economist?What is the proportion of each category?(2)What kind of China’s national image has been constructed through these metaphors?This research finds that thirteen categories of conceptual metaphor are applied in this corpus,namely,organism metaphor,war metaphor,journey metaphor,game metaphor,spatial movement metaphor,building metaphor,stage metaphor,liquid metaphor,container metaphor,machine metaphor,family metaphor,color metaphor and some novel metaphors.Through analysis of each category of conceptual metaphor,it is found that The Economist mainly emphasizes the negative national image of China.For instance,"China’s economic recovery is unbalanced." "China is the enemy and rival of the United States,whose economic development will harm the interests of other countries.,Meanwhile,this magazine affirms China’s development of clean-energy technology,acknowledging China’s efforts in environmental protection Generally speaking,The Economist still has a stereotypical image of China,full of stubborn prejudice and fear.This research is conducive to Chinese media to better understand the discourse strategies of foreign news media used to construct China’s national image,so as to actively and effectively apply them to construct a favorable national image in the international discourse system.From the reader’s point of view,exposing the rhetorical motives behind the metaphorical construction of China’s national image in China-related economic news reports allows readers to shed light on seemingly objective news reports,which is helpful to improve their critical reading abilities.更多还原