TY - JOUR
T1 - The US-China battle over Coronavirus in the news media
T2 - Metaphor transfer as a representation of stance mediation
AU - Liu, Yufeng
AU - Li, Dechao
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for reading and commenting on this research. We also want to express our gratitude to Dr. Kathleen Macdonald for proofreading this article. The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
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PY - 2022/7
Y1 - 2022/7
N2 - Drawing upon a corpus approach to metaphor analysis, stance analysis, and Critical Discourse Analysis, the study analyzes different stances taken by the Chinese news outlet Global Times (GT) and the American The New York Times (NYT) in 2020 Coronavirus narratives to Chinese and English readers. The database includes all Coronavirus-related GT and NYT bilingual opinion articles in 2020, that is, 97 pairs from GT and 73 pairs from NYT which are comparable in Chinese and English tokens. Results show that the differences between GT and NYT in narrating the pandemic and the involved parties, that is, China and the US, are statistically significant with a moderate to strong effect size. The Lambda test of association demonstrates that the knowledge of metaphor transfer methods can significantly increase the correctness of attitudinal intensity prediction, which bears out metaphor transfer as a representation of stance mediation.
AB - Drawing upon a corpus approach to metaphor analysis, stance analysis, and Critical Discourse Analysis, the study analyzes different stances taken by the Chinese news outlet Global Times (GT) and the American The New York Times (NYT) in 2020 Coronavirus narratives to Chinese and English readers. The database includes all Coronavirus-related GT and NYT bilingual opinion articles in 2020, that is, 97 pairs from GT and 73 pairs from NYT which are comparable in Chinese and English tokens. Results show that the differences between GT and NYT in narrating the pandemic and the involved parties, that is, China and the US, are statistically significant with a moderate to strong effect size. The Lambda test of association demonstrates that the knowledge of metaphor transfer methods can significantly increase the correctness of attitudinal intensity prediction, which bears out metaphor transfer as a representation of stance mediation.
KW - CDA
KW - Coronavirus
KW - corpus
KW - international politics
KW - metaphor translation
KW - news translation
KW - stance mediation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85128268804&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/09579265221088122
DO - 10.1177/09579265221088122
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85128268804
SN - 0957-9265
VL - 33
SP - 456
EP - 477
JO - Discourse and Society
JF - Discourse and Society
IS - 4
ER -