A Cognitive Study of News Reports of China Daily and Washington Post on Diaoyu Island Issues

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10.2991/mdhss-13.2013.95How to use a DOI?

Keywords

conceptual metaphor, China Daily, Washington Post, Diaoyu island issue

Abstract

Diaoyu islands issue has become the hot topic since 2012. China Daily and Washington Post are chosen as research subject, who are representative news agencies with great authority of two countries representing their countries’ and people’s attitude. The author chose 8 news reports respectively from the two news agencies over Diaoyu island issue, combining political news and conceptual metaphor, finding out the similarities and differences in the use of conceptual metaphor of these two news agencies based on mapping mechanism, and revealing their attitude and political stance over the Diaoyu islands issue. It has been found that there are some metaphors commonly used by two news agencies, while some metaphors are preferred. Besides, China holds unshakable political stance in protecting its own territory rights. America’s attitude over the island dispute between China and Japan is constantly changing.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Na Wang
AU  - Wenrui Lian
PY  - 2013/12
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TI  - A Cognitive Study of News Reports of China Daily and Washington Post on Diaoyu Island Issues
BT  - Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on the Modern Development of Humanities and Social Science
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 357
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