@inproceedings{adce730363904167897f23d05529bbc7,
title = "Reform is a journey: Conceptualizing China{\textquoteright}s Reform and Opening-Up in the Official News Discourse",
abstract = "This study explores the conceptual metaphors used in the official news discourse of China{\textquoteright}s reform and opening-up. The BCC People{\textquoteright}s Daily Corpus is selected as the database from which concordances of the Chinese word gaige (reform) are retrieved and collected to build a reform-themed concordance corpus. The analysis of metaphors identified from the structure “gaige + shi” has revealed that journey is the predominant source domain of reform metaphors. The source, goal, path, and mode elements of the journey schema are also analyzed in detail. It is found that these elements are mobilized by the state media as important strategies in calling for more people in joining the reform and keeping it moving forward towards destinations one after another.",
keywords = "Conceptual Metaphor, Corpus, Gaige, News Discourse, Reform",
author = "Longxing Li and Wang, {Vincent Xian} and Lily Lim",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.; 23rd Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2022 ; Conference date: 14-05-2022 Through 15-05-2022",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-28956-9_14",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783031289552",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH",
pages = "170--180",
editor = "Qi Su and Ge Xu and Xiaoyan Yang",
booktitle = "Chinese Lexical Semantics - 23rd Workshop, CLSW 2022, Revised Selected Papers",
address = "Germany",
}