Metaphor, Nominalization, Appraisal: Analyzing Coronavirus-Related Headlines and Subheadings in China Daily and The Wall Street Journal
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چکیده
This paper focuses on two corpora of headlines and subheadings from news articles about the coronavirus, published in China Daily (CD) The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) between January 7 February 8, 2020. Applying Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) Systemic Functional Linguistics, particularly nominalization framework (Halliday, 1997/2004) Appraisal (Martin White, 2005), explores how virus actions taken against it are framed through use metaphors, nominalizations, evaluative language general. Results highlight similarities metaphorical conceptualization virus/disease corpora, but also key differences terms framing. In , metaphor function to frame situation mainly positive terms; conversely, WSJ emerging outlook is predominantly pessimistic. conclusive section takes stock such differences, light socio-cultural contexts which they embedded. Finally, remarks made usefulness proposed theoretical methodological approach, main advantages being holistic perspective textual data combination analysis – as phenomena often work synergistically systematicity brought by integrating appraisal into studies. At contextual level, relevance findings lies their contribution a deeper understanding different national responses, media representation, at onset coronavirus crisis.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2550-2131', '1675-8021']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17576/gema-2021-2101-15