| The use of drama vocabulary in sports news is a kind of metaphor cognitionphenomenon. The paper regards this use as a research object. Then, under theguidance of the metaphor theory in the cognitive linguistics, the paper analyzescomprehensively the two materials, such as the column Olympic Special in the"People’s Daily" during the Olympic Games in2008and the newspaper "China SportsDaily” during the Olympic Games in2012. Also, according to the definition of the"Modern Chinese Dictionary"(the sixth edition) and the "Chinese Folk DramaDictionary", the paper establishes a drama metaphor corpus, which is made up of1024lexical items. On this basis, the paper makes a statistic about the frequency ofused words and the distribution of metaphor vocabularies.Then, the paper summarizesthe basic types of the drama metaphors in sports news and makes a detailed semanticanalysis, which reveals the generation and interpretation mechanisms of dramametaphors. Besides, the cognitive functions of drama metaphors are discussed.Studies have shown that the main form of metaphor vocabularies that are fromdrama vocabularies is two-syllable. The vocabularies in the distribution have thefeatures of a big quantity, a wide range and imbalance. The metaphor types arediversity and unbalanced. The essence of the generation and interpretation mechanismis a people’s mental process, which is derived from associative thinking. It is a mentalprocess that people use existing cognitive context to highlight the similarity of the twoconcepts to achieve metaphorical understanding and metaphorical expressing.This research has both theoretical and practical significance. Theoretically, underthe guidance of western metaphor theories, the research studies the cross-domainusing of drama vocabularies in the Chinese corpora used in the area of sports newsfrom the cognitive aspect. And the paper finds the cognitive phenomena that cannotbe found in the traditional Chinese metaphor rhetorical perspective. The findings notonly promote the localization of foreign linguistics theories in China but also enrichChinese studies. Meanwhile, the study provides new supports to the foreign linguistictheories and the theories of metaphor get further confirmation and development. Inpractice, the study not only provides the guidance value of the vocabulary using in thearea of sport news, but also provides reference value of the vocabulary cross-domainusing in other professional vocabulary field. |
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