Metaphor in English Newspaper： Taking China Daily of 2010 as a Corpus.pdfVIP

SinoU·SEnglishTeaching，ISSN 1539．8072 February2014，Vo1．11，No．2，129-135 aLI墨 HIN S MetaphorinEnglishNewspaper： TakingChinaDailyof2010asaCorpus CAIYuan—zhen，ZHOU Xiao-liang BeijingInformationScienceandTechnologyUniversity，Beijing，China ThispaperidentifiesmetaphorsinnewspaperEnglish specificallythearticlesinChi，2dDaay，astheresearch ， object．ManylinguistshavestudiesmetaphorsinnewspaperEnglish，butresearchperspectiveisonlvlimitedtothe classificationofmetaphor，andnotanalysesthetrendsforeachtypeofmetaphorfrom thediachronjcappmach ， therefore，thispaperaimstomakeup forthisdeficiency ． Thirty-sixarticlesarerandomlysampledfrom Chia Dailyintheyearof2010，tomakeupasmallcorpus ． Thentheoccu~encerfequencyofeverykindOfmetaDhorof recentyearsinthiscorpusisanalyzed．Finally itisfoundthattheoccurrencerfequencyoforientationalmetaDh0rs ， showsadecreasingtendency，whilethoseoftheontologicalandstructuralmetaphorsarerelativelystable