Economy or ecology: metaphor use over time in China’s Government Work Reports

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2023-06-16 DOI:10.1017/langcog.2023.18

Ya Sun, Deyi Kong, Chenmeng Zhou

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Abstract

Abstract Government attention selectively distributed to various issues in policy-making processes is usually reflected in language, such as metaphors in political discourse. In addition, metaphor change may reveal how conceptualizations of major topics such as economy and ecology evolve over time. After self-building a corpus of China’s 45-year Government Work Reports, this study explores whether there is a difference in attention to topics of economy and ecology over time and investigates the diachronic change of metaphor use on them based on a modified framework for diachronic metaphor change analysis. Results show that attention to economy has been steadily decreasing while attention to ecology has been growing, and that there is an increasing tendency of using more economy and ecology metaphors. Metaphor change on the use of source domains is arranged on a continuum, ranging from constant use (war for economy and ecology, and journey and object for economy), incremental change (living organism and building for economy and ecology, and object for ecology) to fundamental change (building and living organism for ecology). This study may enrich the understanding of diachronic metaphor change by providing a Chinese perspective on the metaphor use in government discourse over time.

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经济还是生态:中国政府工作报告中不同时期的隐喻

摘要政府对决策过程中各种问题的选择性关注通常反映在语言中，如政治话语中的隐喻。此外，隐喻的变化可能揭示经济和生态等主要主题的概念是如何随着时间的推移而演变的。在自行构建了45年来中国政府工作报告的语料库后，本研究探讨了随着时间的推移，人们对经济和生态主题的关注是否存在差异，并基于一个经过修改的历时隐喻变化分析框架，考察了它们对隐喻使用的历时变化。结果表明，对经济的关注在稳步下降，而对生态的关注在增长，并且使用更多经济和生态隐喻的趋势越来越明显。隐喻在源域使用上的变化是连续的，从持续的使用（经济和生态的战争，经济的旅程和对象）、增量的变化（经济和生态学的活体和建筑，生态学的对象）到根本的变化（生态学的建筑和活体）。本研究通过提供一个关于政府话语中隐喻使用随时间变化的中国视角，可以丰富对隐喻历时变化的理解。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.