Author(s)

Xiao Liangyuan ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Foreign Languages, Guangdong Technology College, Zhaoqing, Guangdong, China

Corresponding Author

Xiao Liangyuan

ABSTRACT

This study focuses on the types of conceptual metaphors used in Chinese Government Work Reports (CGWRs) and American State of the Union addresses (ASUAs). The corpus selected in this paper is government work reports of China and United States for three consecutive years (2020-2022). The Conceptual Metaphor Theory of cognitive linguistics is used as the theoretical basis, and the differences in the use of political metaphors between Chinese and English are compared by combining critical metaphor analysis (CMA). Through CMA, conceptual metaphor types are derived from these two discourses, and combined with metaphorical criticisms, the hidden ideologies in CGWRs and ASUAs are analyzed.

KEYWORDS

Conceptual metaphor, critical metaphor analysis, government work report

CITE THIS PAPER

Xiao Liangyuan, Conceptual Metaphors in Chinese Government Work Reports and American State of the Union Addresses. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2023) Vol. 6: 95-99. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.061516.

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