1. 研究目的与意义

with thepublication of the masterpiece metaphors we live by, co-written bylakoff and johnson, which had shed light on the analysis of political discoursewith the help of conceptual metaphor theory, a growing number of scholarsembark on the analysis of political discourses from the perspective ofconceptual metaphor. however, relative research on political speech at home isstill in its infancy, lacking a comprehensive and methodical system ofpolitical metaphor. and this paper will try to fill in the gap, which may bringsome help for people to understand this theory and share its significance.

theoretically, through the study, readers are expected to grasp theconcepts of the conceptual metaphors and the values behind it, especially whenapplied to the political speech. fortunately, readers may better master thehidden meanings in such political speeches. what’s more, this research may alsoprovide some inspiration for several areas, like second language teaching and cross-culturalcommunication, particularly the chinese-english translation of conceptual metaphors in the political field. furthermore, this paper willsummarize and analyze some typical conceptual metaphors in xijinping’s speech at a ceremony marking the centenary of the communist party ofchina and by identifying the type and mechanism of conceptual metaphors inthe text, readers are expected to basically comprehend the vague and abstractchinese political values and ideology, which will do some help in further studyabout conceptual metaphor in political speech.

2. 研究内容和预期目标

1.researchfocus

based on the theoryof conceptual metaphor, this paper will analyze xi jinping’s speech at a ceremonymarking the centenary of the communist party of china and revel the ideologicalconnotation behind the conceptual metaphor by identifying the type ofconceptual metaphors with examples in the text.

3. 国内外研究现状

before themasterpiece metaphors we live by was published in 1980, many scholarsinfluenced by aristotle traditionally thought metaphor as a rhetoric anddecorative language. since lakoff puts forward conceptual metaphor, a consensusthat metaphor is a way of thinking has been reached among the scholars. generallyspeaking, conceptual metaphor can be studied from two broad perspectives—thetraditional view and the cognitive view.

from thetraditional view, metaphor is defined as a poetic language expression.aristotle, who first studied metaphor systematically, announced his contrastiveview in ancient greece, believing that metaphor was just a way to convey thesame meaning with one expression replacing another. and quintilian publishedsubstitution view that metaphor was a rhetorical device using one word tosubstitute for another. richards(1936) who put forward interaction theory,thought metaphor relied on the interaction of thinking instead of a phenomenonof language substitution, and later black(1962) elaborated this theory, whichcan be seen as the rudiments of cognitive study of metaphor.

4. 计划与进度安排

introduction

1. literaturereview

1.1 anintroduction to conceptual metaphor

5. 参考文献

[1]aristotle. the rhetoric and poetics.new york: the modern library. 1954