Critical Metaphor Analysis of Local Government Official Discourse for Public Emergencies
Emergency discourse,an effective tool for constructing and disseminating knowledge,plays a vital role in disaster re-lieving and public guidance during public emergencies.Against this background,this study,employing the local government press conferences during the periodic outbreak of COVID-19 in J City as data,carries out a critical metaphor analysis to examine the fea-tures and functions of metaphors in official emergency discourse.The result shows that war,competition,personification,fluid,ar-chitecture and other metaphors are widely used in the public emergency discourse to narrate the anti-epidemic behaviors and mea-sures,the characteristics of virus,and the living facilities.By using these metaphors,the government stances and goals are clearly expressed in the anti-epidemic practices.As a preliminary work,this study claims that analyzing emergency discourse not only deepens out understanding of its language characteristics,but also serves as a supplement to emergency language service policy re-search,thereby providing intellectual support for the improvement of emergency language ability.
official emergency discoursecritical metaphor analysisstancetakingemergency language services
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