A Study Based on Critical Discourse Analysis of News Report on American Fiscal Cliff

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2014.04.012

Abstract

Abstract: The discourse-constructing power of metaphor is acquired through the function of frame. Based on one or multiple frames, readers make use of established background knowledge and conceptual structure to infer and comprehend the meaning of discourse and the intention of speakers. By means of frame, human brains connect the existing knowledge with new information in a specific situation to construct new cognition, and the frame of a concept consequently is shaped through people’s gradual familiarity with it. Certain frames are inherent whereas others are built through later experiencing or training. People’s cognition frame of American fiscal cliff is gradually formed by their continuous deepening understanding of it. Applying news report on American fiscal cliff in US News and World Report (2012) as material this paper mainly employs frame theory to analyze the discourse-constructing function of conceptual metaphor through which the establishment of ideology is achieved by presupposition, embedment and political story creation. It further explores the translation technique of metaphor and proposes three approaches to translate metaphor such as the transplanting, transferring and deleting of metaphorical image.

CLC Number:

H315.9

WEI Zhongsheng. A Study Based on Critical Discourse Analysis of News Report on American Fiscal Cliff[J]. Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies, 2014, 14(04): 53-57.

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