英語專業(yè)研究生開題報告

1、碩士學位研究生開題報告與文獻總結課題名稱：a cognitive interpretation of metaphor in englishnews headline based on conceptual integrationtheory概念整合理論對英語新聞標題中隱喻的認知解讀學號：學科專業(yè)：年級：姓名：指導教師：報告時間:2012年06月30日a cognitive interpretation of metaphor in english news headlinebased on conceptual integration theorythesis proposaltopic s

2、ources and theoretical basisnowadays, with the development of economy and the progress of society, more and more attention is paid to culture. actually, language itself is a kind of culture and a carrier of culture. it involves almost every aspect of the society, including international, national, p

3、olitical, economic, cultural, religious fields and daily communication. to analyse and explain a variety of language phenomenon, certain knowledge of linguistics is particularly significant.over the years, with the intersection of linguistics and other disciplines, many new disciplines have formed,

4、such as psycholinguistics, social linguistics, communicative linguistics and so on. since the 1970s, more and more emphasis has been placed on cognitive linguistics. conceptual integration theory, one of the most important theory of cognitive linguistics, is proposed to interpret people's thinki

5、ng modes by analysing the language they use. with strong explanatory and persuasive power, conceptual integration theory provides a theoretical framework for a range of cognitive phenomena. at the same time, it greatly promotes the development of cognitive linguistics. conceptual integration theory

6、can offer a detailed description and profound explanation of the meaning construction of english news headlines, which opens up a broader prospect for studying english news headlines.significance and relevant studiesat present, we live in an information age and we are exposed to a vast variety of ne

7、ws reports. recently, news headlines, the very first part of the news, have received more and more attention. news headlines have a unique role in news reports because they can provide readers a great deal of information at first sight. and a number of experts and scholars have placed much emphasis

8、on this topic. they have described and analysed news headlines from many perspectives, including their language features, functions, translation and figures of speech and so on. nevertheless, all these researches were on the basis of traditional linguistics, rhetoric, translation rather than modern

9、linguistics, cognition and thinking consequently, studies on the meaning construction of news headlines are scant.conceptual integration theory, a crucial part of cognitive linguistics, has a great explanatory power on the process of meaning construction. news headline reading is very representative

10、 of on-line reading. hence, conceptual integration theory is especially ponderable for the meaning construction process of news headlines. the previous scholars make few researches on meaning construction of news headlines in the framework of conceptual integration theory. to investigate the process

11、 of meaning construction of news headlines from the perspective of conceptual integration theory will enrich the study of news headlines, offer an alternative perspective of news headlines study, and lead to a better understanding of news headlines.objectives, contents and key problemsaccording to t

12、he fundamental principle of the research, objectives of this study can be summarized as follows:(1) to provide an alternative perspective on news headlines by analysing news headlines based on conceptual integration theory.(2) to interpret the meaning construction process of news headlines.(3) to sp

13、ecify the abstract cognitive integration by examining metaphor in news headlines, to work out the back mechanism in news headlines, and then to help people expand studies on news headlines.this study mainly explore nearly 300 news headlines from the new york times, the times and china daily to inter

14、pret the meaning construction process of english news headlines from the perspective of conceptual integration theory.to achieve these objectives, this study aims to answer these following questions:(1) why are metaphors so frequently used in news headlines?(2) how do metaphors in news headlines rea

15、lize the process of meaning construction?(3) what are the implications of the present study?methodology and feasibilitythe thesis is going to do a cognitive study on the metaphors in english news headlines. two methods are employed in this thesis, which are quantitative analysis and qualitative anal

16、ysis. it is quantitative because the thesis is date-based analysis. it is qualitative because it is an application in the field of cognitive linguistics. the primary sources for the corpus are about 300 pieces of news headlines from the new york times, the times and china daily. such a corpus can he

17、lp the author acquire a more objective conclusion after adequate quantitative analysis-findings from a corpus-based research are more reliable than what is gained from intuition or case studies on individual tests. the corpus can present some information about the frequency of certain phenomena. hen

18、ce, the corpus-oriented research on news headlines can show the frequency of metaphor and other rhetorical methods, which may not be available for other research methods. nowadays, a particular corpus for news headlines is not yet realized. however, the feasibility of setting up such a coipus has be

19、en confirmed in many cases. deignan (2005) states in her book the feasibility of building a corpus for certain field studies has been verified in many cases. rohrefs work on the metaphors of the gulf war (1995), patthey chavezetafs discussion of metaphors in women's erotic fiction (1996) and blo

20、ck's work on sla research. (deignan, 2005, p. 110)originalitynumerous scholars and experts have made many researches on news headlines from the perspective of their language features, functions, translation and figures of speech and so on. but there are few researches on meaning construction of

21、news headlines in the framework of conceptual integration theory. since conceptual integration theory is an indispensable part of cognitive linguistics, my tentative efforts in the thesis lie in:firstly, the study concentrates on news headlines from cognitive linguistic perspective, and enriches the

22、 news headline studies, and offers an alternative perspective on news headline studies.secondly, the study focuses on metaphor in news headlines and to explain the potential working mechanism of metaphor under conceptual integration networks.outline:introductionchapter one literature review and theo

23、retical basis1previous studies on news headline1from stylistics perspective1.1.2 from rhetorics perspective1.1.3 from mass communication perspective1.2 conceptual integration networks121 key terms of conceptual integration network model1.2.2 optimality principle1.2.3 types of conceptual integration

24、networks1.2.4 studies of conceptual integration theory at home and abroad1.3 relevant studies on metaphor131 traditional studies on metaphor1.3.2 explanatory power of conceptual integration networks for metaphorchapter two corpus construction2.1 an evaluation of corpus-based approach2.2 date collect

25、ion process2.3 date description and analysis2.4 major findingschapter three citbased analysis of metaphor in english news headlinefrom simplex networks perspectivefrom mirror networks perspectivefrom single-scope networksfrom doublc-scopc networksconclusionbibliographyappendix: english news headline

26、sschedule of development and prospective achievementsthe time arrangement of the thesis is as follows:2012.03-2012.06 collecting materials and browsing the relevant literature2012.06finishing thesis proposal and literature review2012.06-2012.12writing the first draft of the thesis2013.01-2013.03revi

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