Constructing BRI Image with Multimodal Conceptual Metaphor in Pictorial News from China Daily and BBC
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چکیده
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been playing an important role in constructing propagating China’s international image. This study explores BRI-themed pictorial news reports featured with the coexistence of text pictures from China Daily BBC to analyze BRI image construction. Our discussion centers on two perspectives multimodal conceptual metaphors, namely representational meaning, interactive meaning. finds that metaphors construct images were mainly embodied accentuated text-picture representation interaction. Two salient portrayed by media, respectively, which might be attributed different cognitive cultural factors.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International journal of linguistics, literature and translation
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2617-0299', '2708-0099']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2022.5.7.11