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A Comparative Study of Textual Function of Metaphor in China Daily and Newsweek

Author: LiaoKai
Tutor: LiaoMeiZhen
School: Central China Normal University
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: English reading Discourse Analysis Metaphor English Newspaper Textual Function of Metaphor
CLC: H315
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
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Abstract


Read English newspapers and people learning English is one important way , it is the English four , the six professional four , eight , and postgraduate examinations , an important source of reading questions , and wide-ranging selection of newspaper articles in English and has a certain degree of difficulty . Metaphor generally exist in these newspaper articles . Of course, people never stopped metaphor studies in English reading . From the 60s of the last century , the vigorous development of cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics reading research has injected new vitality . Linguistics research steering and psychological process of reading research push to a dramatic height . While the metaphor is one of the important methods on discourse and discourse Construal experience-based Cognitive Linguistics . The metaphor of a long history of research . However, more people will stay in the Construal explore issues . Few of its discourse function . Halliday (1985) in the framework of grammatical metaphor conceptual metaphors (ideational metaphor), interpersonal metaphor (interpersonal metaphor) and chapter metaphors (textual metaphor) , his chapter metaphor actually means \its clearly defined . Martin (1992:404) Following Halliday After officially use the term \chapter grammatical metaphor Lakoff 's conceptual metaphor '' ( conceptual How does metaphor) in recent years , the domestic well-known scholar Professor Liao Meizhen comprehensive exposition and systematic study the discourse metaphor functions do his metaphorical language chapter organization function study include three aspects: First, the organizational relationship between the title and body , a metaphor for change in the level of discourse organization , a metaphorical discourse coherence and jumping . article will borrow of Professor Liao Meizhen the metaphor of language chapter organizations function theory , the different types of \

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