ABSTRACT

Most journalism studies of metaphorical emotions attend to the interlocked bond between the selection of source domains and the conceptualization of emotions. It is less common to discuss the evaluative attribute of metaphorical emotions and their function or discourse act. This study examines why metaphorical emotions can realize the empathetic construct and how they are usually invoked in news reports, by drawing on a case study of the English news corpus about the China–US trade disputes. It then argues that, first, metaphors are engineered to perform an evaluative control that works through the deployment of invoking strategies in news reports; second, metaphorical emotions are an integral part of news reports, and are ritually invoked in a particular way: they are predominantly flagged, but rarely provoked and afforded in news reports. The study concludes that a survey of the strategic ritual used for invoking metaphorical emotions can reveal journalists’ act for aligning with readers.

摘要

大多数关于隐喻情绪的新闻研究都关注源域的选择和情绪的概念化之间的相互联系。讨论隐喻情绪的评价属性及其功能或话语行为的情况较少见。本研究通过对有关中美贸易争端的英文新闻语料库的案例研究，探讨了隐喻情绪为何能够实现移情构造以及它们通常如何在新闻报道中被引用。然后它认为，首先，隐喻被设计为通过在新闻报道中部署调用策略来执行评估控制；其次，隐喻情绪是新闻报道的一个组成部分，并以一种特殊的方式被仪式化地调用：它们主要被标记，但很少在新闻报道中被激起和提供。