中美领导人政治演讲辞隐喻对比的研究.doc

硕士学位论文  论文题目  中美领导人政治演讲辞的隐喻对比研究  研究生姓名  顾  欣  指导教师姓名 专 业 名 称 研 究 方 向 论文提交日期  祝蔚红 外国语言学及应用语言学 公众演讲与修辞学 2013 年 5 月 A Contrastive Study of Metaphors in Chinese and American Leaders Public Speeches by Gu Xin Under the Supervision of Professor Zhu Weihong Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts School of Foreign Languages Soochow University March 2013 Acknowledgements I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Professor Zhu Weihong, for all her efforts devoted to the whole process of my thesis writing. Her patience and meticulousness permeates every step in my writing of this thesis, including helping me choose the topic, leading me to the correct way of doing research, providing me with valuable materials, polishing my drafts and offering insightful suggestions. I owe many thanks to Ms. Duan Mulan, the teacher in charge of Class 1, Grade 3 in Caixiang Middle School, for her support in providing me with some of her books concerning metaphors and cultures. I am also indebted to Professor Jia Guanjie, my teacher of the Theory of English Teaching course, who has taught me the criteria of making a reasonable structure of organizing the thesis in his class. My hearty thanks also go to my classmates and friends who have tried their best to help me in completing the thesis. Finally, great appreciation is extended to my parents for their unfailing support and love. i ABSTRACT A Contrastive Study of Metaphors in Chinese and American Leaders Public Speeches Gu Xin According to Conceptual Metaphor Theory, metaphor is regarded as a way of cognition and a figure of thought, and is pervasive in human beings? daily life. This thesis, based on the Conceptual Metaphor Theory put forward by Lakoff, makes a contrastive analysis of conceptual metaphors in Chinese leader Hu Jintao and American leader Barack Obama?s political speeches, aiming to find out the differences and similarities of conceptual metaphors in bot