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Militarization of Newspaper Language – Diachronic Study of War Metaphor in People's Daily

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Chinese Lexical Semantics (CLSW 2020)

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Taking the corpus of People's Daily from 1946 to 2015 as the research object, this paper discusses the use of war metaphors with the development of society and the influence of major events by comparing news reports made in different period of time and in different themes. It is found that war metaphors combining with military terms are used frequently and widely in newspaper language. Meanwhile, the texts are classified using the metaphorical data of war over the years. By comparing the resonance of source domain of war metaphors in different fields, it is found that metaphorical keywords are more widely used in the fields of economy. By conducting research on the metaphors of war in newspapers for many years, a new method is found for the study of metaphors in newspapers.

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This paper is supported by Graduate Innovation Foundation in 2019 (19YCX151).

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  1. Research Institute of International Chinese Language Education, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, 100083, China

    Qi Li & Gaoqi Rao

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    Chunyu Kit

  3. School of Foreign Languages, Peking University, Beijing, China

    Qi Su

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Li, Q., Rao, G. (2021). Militarization of Newspaper Language – Diachronic Study of War Metaphor in People's Daily. In: Liu, M., Kit, C., Su, Q. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12278. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81197-6_50

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