{"title":"Recontextualizing political metaphor in news discourse","authors":"L. Pan, Chuxin Huang","doi":"10.4324/9781003032984-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003032984-7","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter investigates how the political metaphor is accommodated and recontextualized in media discourse. Drawing on the recontextualization principles in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) (Fairclough, 2003, Analysing discourse: Textual analysis for social research. London: Routledge) and the engagement system in Appraisal Theory (AT) (Martin & White, 2005, The language of evaluation: Appraisal in English. Houndmills Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan), an analytical model is proposed to examine the recontextualization of the Chinese political metaphor from a political speech to English media reports. The authors analyse how a metaphor used by Chinese President Xi Jinping during his visit to Nepal generated a great deal of media coverage and how the metaphor was removed from its original context, translated, quoted and recontextualized in the English news discourse of both major Chinese and Anglo-American media. The chapter also illustrates how the strategies of discursive practices can be employed to identify the positioning and evaluation of the translation and quotations of the political metaphor in the recontextualization processes in media discourse.","PeriodicalId":267995,"journal":{"name":"Chinese News Discourse","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127389364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Public diplomacy strategies represented domestically through ports along the Twenty-First Century Maritime Silk Road","authors":"N. Liu, Yi Wang, Dan Shi","doi":"10.4324/9781003032984-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003032984-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":267995,"journal":{"name":"Chinese News Discourse","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121328180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sustaining state legitimacy in the punch of political scandals","authors":"Xianwen Kuang","doi":"10.4324/9781003032984-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003032984-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":267995,"journal":{"name":"Chinese News Discourse","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114274312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What newspapers and people say about #China70","authors":"Z. Chen","doi":"10.4324/9781003032984-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003032984-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":267995,"journal":{"name":"Chinese News Discourse","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131499507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A social constructivist approach to acquiring international news translation norms in China","authors":"Emma Huizhen Du","doi":"10.4324/9781003032984-12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003032984-12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":267995,"journal":{"name":"Chinese News Discourse","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128718080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A survey of Chinese photojournalists","authors":"S. Zhang, A. Hadland","doi":"10.4324/9781003032984-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003032984-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":267995,"journal":{"name":"Chinese News Discourse","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122280397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}