| As an important element of a discourse, coherence has always been the focus, which attracts the attention of many linguists. Discourse coherence shows different characteristics under different cultural ang language background. Since the 1970 s, more and more scholars began to pay attention to the study of coherence. With deeper and deeper understanding and the rapid rise of cognitive linguistics, recently, the interpretation of discourse coherence from cognitive point has been wider and wider. With the appearance of Lakoff’s and Johnson’s work Metaphors We Live By, metaphor has been applied to many kinds of studies. Metaphor has inseparable relation with linguistic philosophy and cognitive psychology. In recent years, many scholars have applied metaphor theory to the study of coherence.However, most existing studies that focused on analyzing the relation between cohesion and coherence. They are too theoretical without application. The approach to those studies is restricted to the functional framework. Research from the cognitive perspective demands further exploration. The corpus of this thesis includes 30 Chinese discourses and 30 English discourses. The author chose China Sport Daily, Titan Sports, Sports, Yahoo Sports and Bleacher Report as the sources of the corpus. This thesis selects the sports news discourses published between July 2014 and March 2015 as the research corpus. On the basis of metaphor theory, this thesis uses literature research, comparative analysis, and combination of qualitative and quantitative analysis to analyze corpus data. By comparing the features of coherence built by metaphor, this study focuses on the similarities and differences between Chinese and English sports news discourse.When combined with examples, this study illustrats how metaphor builds discourse coherence. After researching this thesis concludes there are indeed some similarities and differences of coherence between Chinese and English sports news discourses. The main similarities are that both in Chinese and English sports news discourses exist plenty of applications of metaphorical types, of which the most frequent is war metaphor. The main differences are that metaphors in Chinese discourse are more than that of English discourse. In both the aspect of metaphorical modes and metaphorical types, Chinese sports news discourses have the advantage in quantity and quality. There are a lot of unique metaphors in Chinese sports news discourses. Chinese and English sports journalists can learn from each other, in order to make the language expression align more with the reader’s aesthetic. |
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