The Great Wall Metaphor Study Of Chinese Image In Chinese TV Documentary

With the development of globalization in the 21 st century,in order to get the mechanization and support from the other countries,China must learn how to tell Chinese stories and create a good national image.The national image is the result of the communication as well as the process of the media.As the carrier of the information and the channel of communication,any rhetoric of the information may affect the presentation of the national image.So the national image are inextricably linked with the media,especially its rhetorical strategy.Metaphor is one of the rhetorical strategies that can shape the national image.It can give ordinary words with novel meaning,inspire people's deep cognition and concrete thinking.And it is difficult to cause the psychological resistance for the foreign audiences and easy to achieve a better communication effect.The Great Wall,as the spiritual symbol of the Chinese nation,carries the common honor and dreams of the Chinese people of all ethnic groups.The Great Wall,the Chinese Story is a reflection of Chinese national image.This document is very popular.So it has been selected as the main source of metaphorical corpus.This paper tries to analyze the pattern and function of the metaphor in the documentary,and the relationship between the metaphorical narrative and the national image.The first part is the introduction,which includes the research origin,the summary of the research results,the selection of the research text,the theoretical basis,the content,the method and the innovation of the research.The second part is try to explain the feasibility and pattern design of the national image of metaphor.The feasibility analysis is mainly from the aspects of cultural cognition and social psychological factors.The model design includes conceptual metaphor mode,discourse metaphor mode and Multi-Modal metaphorical model.The third part is the functional classification of the metaphorical image of the documentary,including the function of interpretation,empathy and persuasion.The fourth part is about the metaphors in the documentary Great Wall,Chinese story,which includes the metaphorical representation,usage and significance of the metaphors.The metaphorical representation of the Great Wall metaphor in this documentary includes the metaphorical representation of Great Wall about geography,history,and culture.After theanalysis of the the Metaphor of the Great Wall,it comes to the Chinese national image in the aspects of geography,history,and culture.In the fifth part,it mainly discusses the relationship between metaphorical narrative and national image,which relates to the metaphorical text and the usage of metaphor.