A Study Of Metaphorization In Chinese Newspaper Headlines

As a linguistic phenomenon, metaphor become a focus of research in the field of cognitive linguistics since the 20th century .The book by Lakoff and Johnson was a classic in the field of metaphor research .In this book, the author indicate that: Metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action .It means metaphor not only a rhetorical way ,but also a cognitive way which could impact the form of human thinking.By observing the Chinese newspaper headlines, I found there are lots of metaphors in the title. Therefore, I selected the newspaper headlines of which is the most representative national newspaper in China as my corpus.This article is divided into five parts. In the first chapter, the author describes the purpose of the study and clearly define the relevant terminology ,as well as the research methods and sources of the corpus .In the second chapter ,the author outlines the previous studies and research ,describe the theoretical basis of the metaphor .In chapter three , I describe the experimental design process, the corpus collection, classification of the corpus, and corpus statistical methods ,then analyzed the data , with the results to illustrate the use of metaphors in Chinese newspaper headlines .In the fourth chapter ,the author try to use the theory of metaphoric cognition to explain experimental results .The fifth chapter is the last chapter of this article ,the author will make a brief summary of this article .