War, Tool, Race or Building? A comparison of vaccine metaphors between (translated) media and scientific reports in the age of COVID-19

IF 2.7 2区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Journalism Pub Date : 2023-12-28 DOI:10.1177/14648849231223809

Yufeng Liu, Dechao Li

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Abstract

News reportage is one of the major means of scientific communication to the public, but science information can be misrepresented in news. In this study, we used a corpus-assisted discourse analysis approach to examine the use of COVID-19 vaccine metaphors across news, translated news and scientific articles and how metaphorical frames may have differed based on genre and translation. Results reveal that there are shared (HUMAN, RACE and WAR) and unique (BUILDING, PASSPORT and TOOL) source domains between news articles (original and translated) and scientific reports. Interestingly, the study reveals that translation plays a role in the discursive construction of news values, such as Proximity and Negativity, which engenders frame shifts in news production for different target readers. The study concludes by advocating the use of a BUILDING metaphor to map COVID-19 vaccine/vaccination for the benefits of health communication. It has further revealed the complicated nature of scientific communication through (translated) news and calls attention to the political intention of news translation.

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战争、工具、种族还是建筑？COVID-19 时代（翻译）媒体和科学报告中的疫苗隐喻比较

新闻报道是向公众进行科学传播的主要手段之一，但科学信息可能在新闻中被歪曲。在本研究中，我们采用语料库辅助话语分析方法，考察了 COVID-19 疫苗隐喻在新闻、翻译新闻和科学文章中的使用情况，以及隐喻框架在体裁和翻译上的差异。结果显示，新闻文章（原文和译文）和科学报告之间存在共同的（人类、种族和战争）和独特的（建筑、护照和工具）来源域。有趣的是，研究揭示了翻译在新闻价值的话语建构中扮演的角色，如接近性和否定性，这导致了针对不同目标读者的新闻生产的框架转换。本研究最后提倡使用 "建筑 "隐喻来映射 COVID-19 疫苗/接种，以促进健康传播。研究进一步揭示了通过（翻译）新闻进行科学传播的复杂性，并呼吁关注新闻翻译的政治意图。

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Journalism COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

7.90

自引率

10.30%

发文量

123

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