The Study Of Conceptual Metaphor In English Economic News From The Perspective Of Relevance Theory

With the rapid development of society,new things have emerged endlessly.Countries keep introducing new economic policies and strategies to realize fast economic development so as to keep up with the development of the age.However,most people cannot recognize and accept new things immediately.As a means of cognition,metaphor,which means using familiar experiences to understand abstract and unfamiliar concepts,plays an important role in understanding new things.Analyzing the metaphors in news reports of the Belt and Road would help people understand the strategy quickly and take the opportunity to achieve development.The thesis mainly uses description and explanation to study the metaphors in 30 news reports in China Daily.It analyzes the types,frequency of use and reasons for choosing metaphors in detail.The results of the study show that there are six types of metaphor in the news reports of Belt and Road.According to the frequency of use,these metaphors are human metaphor,building metaphor,up-down metaphor,journey metaphor,drama metaphor,and machine metaphor.The high frequency of human being metaphor and the drama metaphor indicates the universality and the peculiarity in the reports of the Belt and Road.The high frequency of human being metaphor in other news reports embodies the university.The high frequency of drama metaphor in the reports in the Belt and Road embodies the peculiarity.All of the six kinds of metaphors have different classifications.Relation metaphor appears most frequently in human metaphor,construction metaphor in building metaphor,up metaphor in up-down metaphor,destination metaphor in journey metaphor,platform metaphor in drama metaphor and engine metaphor in machine metaphor.And the reason for the occurrence of the above mentioned metaphor in the Belt and Road reports is the interaction between cognitive and communicative principles of relevance theory which reflects people's way of thinking.The reason why human being metaphor is mostly used is that people use their most familiar experience to describe the reports related to the Belt and Road and give the Belt and Road the action,relation and all kinds of other experiences of human being so as to make the public familiar with the image of the Belt and Road and know the Belt and Road.The reason for the large number of platform metaphor is that using the experience of platform to describe the Belt and Road can help the Belt and Road set the image of the economic platform,so as to facilitate the development and cooperation between different countries.