基于语料库工具Wmatrix的商务语篇隐喻分析  

Conceptual Metaphor in Business Texts Based on the Corpora:A Case Study of Business Column in The Economist 2021

作　　者：李晓冉 Li Xiaoran(Shaanxi Normal University,Xi’an,710061,China)

机构地区：[1]陕西师范大学,西安710061

出　　处：《语言与文化研究》2024年第1期20-23,共4页Language and Culture Research

摘　　要：隐喻作为一种认知工具,广泛地存在于商务语篇中,用以解释复杂且抽象的商业现象。本研究以概念隐喻理论为理论框架,以具有语义域赋码功能的Wmatrix5.0为检索工具,并结合MIPVU隐喻识别方法,对2021年《经济学人》中357篇商务专栏报道进行隐喻研究,分析商务经济话题中常见的概念隐喻现象。研究发现:商务语篇中最常用的五种隐喻分别为身体隐喻、战争隐喻、旅行隐喻、植物隐喻和建筑隐喻,它们又分别归属于结构隐喻、方位隐喻和本体隐喻。这表明,商务语篇使用的多是常规隐喻,是在人们普遍认知范围内进行的隐喻映射,意在用习以为常的概念来解释高度抽象且复杂的商业现象。As a cognitive tool,metaphor is widely used in economic discourse to explain complex and abstract economic phenomena.Based on the conceptual metaphor theory,this study uses Wmatrix5.0 with semantic domain encoding function as a retrieval tool,combines with MIPVU metaphor identification method,examines the use of metaphors in 357 articles of business columns in The Economist 2021,aiming to analyze the common conceptual metaphors in business articles.It is found that the five most commonly used metaphors in business discourse are body metaphor,war metaphor,travel metaphor,plant metaphor and building metaphor,which belong to structural metaphor,orientational metaphor and ontological metaphor respectively.This suggests that business discourse use conventional metaphors,which are metaphorical mappings carried out in a general cognitive context,to explain highly abstract and complex economic phenomena.

关 键 词：隐喻 商务语篇 语料库 Wmatrix 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]