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Group Buying Broker of Shanghai: Deliberate Metaphors in Shanghai’s COVID-19 News Reports
YE Yuan-jun, GAO Wen-cheng
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2023.02.005
College of Foreign Languages, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
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.
deliberate metaphor, COVID-19, news report
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, February 2023, Vol. 13, No. 2, 89-94
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