基于语料库隐喻现象的话语功能探析——以《纽约时报》新冠肺炎报道为例  

A Corpus-based Approach to the Discourse Function of Metaphor Use:A Case Study of COVID-19 Reports by The New York Times

作　　者：吴凌云 沈莹[1] WU Lingyun;SHEN Ying(School of Foreign Languages, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China)

机构地区：[1]广西大学外国语学院,广西南宁530004

出　　处：《东莞理工学院学报》2020年第6期98-105,共8页Journal of Dongguan University of Technology

摘　　要：隐喻作为一种特殊的信息呈现方式和心理认知机制,传达了某种情感态度和意识形态。新冠肺炎爆发期间,媒体报道巧用隐喻这一话语策略传递疫情信息,架构新冠肺炎形象并具有潜在意图倾向。基于批评隐喻分析框架,结合使用语料库分析软件和MIP隐喻识别程序,探究美国主流媒体《纽约时报》新冠肺炎报道中的隐喻框架及所表达的话语功能。结果发现:新冠肺炎报道中隐喻类型以战争、犯罪、自然灾害和生命体为主,隐喻表达具有信息传播、情感引导和意识形态凸显功能。以疾病类报道为语料研究隐喻特征及其话语功能,不仅拓展了批评隐喻分析对健康话语类文本的应用研究,也有利于提高读者关于疾病语篇的新闻批评能力。Metaphor is a special mode of information presentation and psychological cognitive mechanism,which conveys some emotional attitude and ideology.During the outbreak of COVID-19,media coverage has skillfully taken metaphor as one of discourse strategies to convey information of COVID-19 outbreak,which constructs the novel coronavirus image and implicates media’s potential intention.By combining Corpus analysis tool and MIP(metaphor identification procedure),this paper analyzes the types of metaphors in the reports and the implied discourse functions of metaphor use based on a corpus of reports on COVID-19 by The New York Times in light of the theory of Critical Metaphor Analysis.The results show that four major types of metaphors of war,crime,natural disaster and the animate are used,in which metaphors play a significant functions in communication,emotional persuasiveness and ideological highlighting.The study of metaphorical features and discourse functions based on disease reports not only expands the application of Critical Metaphor Analysis theory to healthy discourse texts,but also improves the critical ability of readers reading the discourse on disease.

关 键 词：语料库 新冠肺炎报道 隐喻 话语功能 

分 类 号：H030[语言文字—语言学]