A Cognitive Contrastive Study Of Sino-american Economic News On “The Belt And Road”

This empirical research in form of contrastive analysis conducted in Sino-American news reports on The Belt and Road Initiative,for short B&R,probes into the complicated and yet thought-provoking mechanism of cognitive perception,together with its profound correlation with language use shown in Sino-American B&R economic news.The data to be analyzed consists of 30 pieces of news respectively sourced from Chinese and American news databases.From the theoretical standpoints of Image Schema,and Current Discourse Space,the author examines and compares how image schemas are identified and interpreted,and how cognitive activation is reproduced in forms of CDS frames,in an aim to draw some insightful implications for B&R promotion and implementation.The contrastive analysis reveals that similar cognitive patterns in certain areas account for the same preference in employing LINK,PART-WHOLE,and CONTAINMENT,which echoes with Chinese publicity of B&R,and the same successive process of discoursal viewing frames proceeding from fact statements,or the concrete facet,to attention focused frame of ideological discussion,and to the cognitive facet.Discrepancies rest on the detailed applications and interpretations of image schematic features and current discourse space frames,driven by cultural and social cognitive variations in Chinese and Americans.This research provides a new perspective in combining cognitive semantics and grammar,addressing the gap of linguistics and pragmatical subjects,enriching the research scope for both linguistics and cross-cultural studies,and offering valuable suggestions in the promotion and implementation of B&R.