新冠疫情新闻叙事的批评认知语言学研究  

A Critical Cognitive Linguistic Approach to COVID-19 News Narratives from Chinese and American media

作　　者：张辉[1] 纪晓丽 Zhang Hui;Ji Xiaoli

机构地区：[1]南京师范大学外国语学院,南京210000 [2]江苏科技大学外国语学院,江苏镇江212100

出　　处：《当代修辞学》2021年第4期42-56,共15页Contemporary Rhetoric

摘　　要：本文以心理空间和概念整合理论为基础,讨论中美新闻叙事的心理空间内嵌和整合的具体方法,对新闻叙事话语进行批评认知分析。通过比较中美新闻叙事,我们发现:1)英文新闻叙事的叙事空间主要采用现在时,以医生的线人视角空间结束,缩短基点空间和叙事空间之间的距离,让读者感受到新冠疫情的严重程度;中文新闻叙事的叙事空间采用过去时,在场景空间结束时,记者转换为现在时,将读者拉回基点空间,拉开读者和新冠的距离,让读者感到安全;2)记者在中文新闻叙事中使用自由直接引用和大量认知感知动词,使记者、叙事者和线人的视角发生融合,从而让读者成为“间接目击者”,对医生救助过程中面对的危险和不顾感染的勇气有更加深入的了解。由此可见,在新闻叙事中,记者会用不同的语言学手段,实现心理空间的内嵌和整合,在保持新闻叙事戏剧性和真实性的平衡下,达到自己的报道目的。This paper intends to make a critical cognitive analysis of COVID-19 news narratives from Chinese and American media Based on the mental spaces and conceptual blending,the paper identifies the linguistic strategies in Chinese and English news narratives and describes how these strategies invite readers to vicariously experience these events as mediate witnesses.The analysis shows as the follows.First,American news narratives use present tense in narrative space and remain source-viewpoints space at the end of each episode space resulting in the temporal compression between these spaces to impress the readers with the severe of COVID-19 while Chinese news narratives adopt past tense in narrative space and change to present tense at the end of each episode space to place the readers at a safe distance from COVID-19.Second,Chinese news narratives use Free Indirect Mode and many verbs of cognition and perception to blend the viewpoint of journalist,narrator and the source,resulting in ambiguous viewpoint which enables the readers to vicariously experience distant news events from up close,as mediated witnesses.In conclusion,different language techniques may be adopted to regulate the distance between mental spaces through space embedding and blending to achieve different report purpose.

关 键 词：心理空间 概念整合 新闻叙事 批评认知语言学 

分 类 号：H15[语言文字—汉语] H315