Economy is human A corpus-based comparative study in English and Chinese economic media discourse

Xu, Y; Royce, T; Hu, C

Economy is human A corpus-based comparative study in English and Chinese economic media discourse

Xu, Y Royce, T

Hu, C

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Publisher:: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 2023, 21, (2), pp. 411-443
Issue Date:: 2023-12-14

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dc.contributor.author	Xu, Y
dc.contributor.author	Royce, T https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2366-4753
dc.contributor.author	Hu, C
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-23T03:22:25Z
dc.date.available	2024-04-23T03:22:25Z
dc.date.issued	2023-12-14
dc.identifier.citation	Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 2023, 21, (2), pp. 411-443
dc.identifier.issn	1877-9751
dc.identifier.issn	1877-976X
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/178270
dc.description.abstract	Utilizing the framework of Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory (ECMT), this paper presents a corpus-based multi-level comparative study of the economy is human metaphor in English and Chinese economic media discourse. While the results indicate a considerable sharing of their respective conceptual structures of “human body”, “human condition” and “human relationship”, they do reveal some diferences in terms of their preference and the associated metaphorical expressions. The similarities detected can possibly be attributed to the similar body, physiological function and social attributes all human beings share, which then work as the source for drawing inferences about the economy. The diferences however are also likely to be derived from the diferent saliences of human experience which characterize the English and Chinese social-cultural contexts. Another possible explanation for these difering culturally-sourced linguistic metaphors may well be media language and its idiosyncratic stylistic features.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	John Benjamins Publishing Company
dc.relation.ispartof	Review of Cognitive Linguistics
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1075/rcl.00140.xu
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dc.subject	1702 Cognitive Sciences, 2004 Linguistics
dc.subject.classification	4704 Linguistics
dc.title	Economy is human A corpus-based comparative study in English and Chinese economic media discourse
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pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)/Graduate Research School
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Utilizing the framework of Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory (ECMT), this paper presents a corpus-based multi-level comparative study of the economy is human metaphor in English and Chinese economic media discourse. While the results indicate a considerable sharing of their respective conceptual structures of “human body”, “human condition” and “human relationship”, they do reveal some diferences in terms of their preference and the associated metaphorical expressions. The similarities detected can possibly be attributed to the similar body, physiological function and social attributes all human beings share, which then work as the source for drawing inferences about the economy. The diferences however are also likely to be derived from the diferent saliences of human experience which characterize the English and Chinese social-cultural contexts. Another possible explanation for these difering culturally-sourced linguistic metaphors may well be media language and its idiosyncratic stylistic features.

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