Group Buying Broker of Shanghai:Deliberate Metaphors in Shanghai’s COVID-19 News Reports  

作　　者：YE Yuan-jun GAO Wen-cheng 

机构地区：[1]College of Foreign Languages,University of Shanghai for Science and Technology,Shanghai 200093,China

出　　处：《Journal of Literature and Art Studies》2023年第2期89-94,共6页文学与艺术研究（英文版）

摘　　要：The outbreak in Shanghai,China in 2022 brought huge challenges to this protracted battle against the epidemic.Based on the deliberate metaphor theory,this study uses the news reports of Shanghai’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic as the corpus and uses quantitative and qualitative methods to analyze the types and characteristics of deliberate metaphors and its pragmatic purpose in a specific context.The results show that there are various types used in news reports,among which War metaphor,Climate metaphor and Education metaphor are used more.The deliberate metaphors makes the news more understandable attractively and pleasantly,thus evoking the emotional resonance of the public.

关 键 词：deliberate metaphor COVID-19 news report 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]