A Comparative Study of War Metaphors in Business and General News Articles Using a Dictionary-based Database

Xian ZHONG

A Comparative Study of War Metaphors in Business and General News Articles Using a Dictionary-based Database

Xian ZHONG

Lingnan University

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Abstract

“Metalude is an interactive database of conventional, lexicalized metaphors” (Goatly, 2002-2005). It has a fine categorization of lexis which has both literal and metaphorical meanings recorded in contemporary English dictionaries under different conceptual metaphors. The Metalude data supports the idea that activity in general, not just business activity, is pervasively understood as war, games, sailing. And that organizations and systems in general, not just the economy, is conceptualized as a machine, or a human body which is more or less healthy. These metaphors can be used in business discourse and general discourse to talk about business activity and activity in general. It thus becomes a question I investigated in this research, focusing on war metaphors, whether the war metaphors were used more in business discourse to talk about business activities, than they were in other texts to refer to activity in general. The study also attempted to compare the findings across English and Chinese.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of The 9th International Conference on Asia Association for Lexicography
Editors	Lan LI, Jamie MCKEOWN, Liming LIU
Publisher	Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Pages	411-424
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Print)	9789623677905
Publication status	Published - Jun 2015
Event	9th International Conference on Asia Association for Lexicography : Words, Dictionaries and Corpora: Innovations in reference science - Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Duration: 25 Jun 2015 → 27 Jun 2015

Conference

Conference	9th International Conference on Asia Association for Lexicography : Words, Dictionaries and Corpora: Innovations in reference science
Abbreviated title	ASIALEX 2015
Country/Territory	Hong Kong
Period	25/06/15 → 27/06/15

Bibliographical note

The work described in this paper was substantially supported by a grant from Research Grants Council of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (UGC/FDS11/E06/14).

Keywords

Metalude
war metaphor
business corpora
general corpora

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ZHONG, X 2015, A Comparative Study of War Metaphors in Business and General News Articles Using a Dictionary-based Database. in L LI, J MCKEOWN & L LIU (eds), Proceedings of The 9th International Conference on Asia Association for Lexicography. Hong Kong Polytechnic University, pp. 411-424, 9th International Conference on Asia Association for Lexicography : Words, Dictionaries and Corpora: Innovations in reference science, Hong Kong, 25/06/15.

A Comparative Study of War Metaphors in Business and General News Articles Using a Dictionary-based Database. / ZHONG, Xian.
Proceedings of The 9th International Conference on Asia Association for Lexicography. ed. / Lan LI; Jamie MCKEOWN; Liming LIU. Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2015. p. 411-424.

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A Comparative Study of War Metaphors in Business and General News Articles Using a Dictionary-based Database

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