What is it about?
It is about metaphors used in the anti-corruption campaign in the People's Daily, both in the Chinese version and the English version.
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Why is it important?
It compares political metaphors used for two different audiences as members of two different epistemic communities.
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This study sheds light on the role of metaphor in conveying political agenda and how audience design impacts of metaphor choice.
Prof. Zhuo Jing-Schmidt
University of Oregon
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This page is a summary of: Winds and tigers: metaphor choice in China’s anti-corruption discourse, Lingua Sinica, January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1186/s40655-016-0017-9.
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