Reading Chinese online entertainment news: Metaphor and language play

Han, Chong

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2011.07.013

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“…War metaphor pervades human activity, enabling readers to comprehend abstract entities through direct knowledge of war (Hu and Xu 2017). Han (2011) propounds that in Chinese online entertainment news, war and martial arts metaphors are playfully trivialised into martial arts fiction and computer games, which echoes Chinese and English history and literature. These playful metaphors concerning wars and martial arts correlate with cultural imagination and create a sensational and stirring fantasy, and hence increase the entertainment value of news.…”

Section: Playful Metaphorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is noteworthy that war metaphors concerning fandom on Weibo are more aggressive yet less implicit than their counterparts used in traditional media. According to Han (2011), Chinese entertainment news are believed to focus on competition for supremacy, rather than fight for survival, so in playful war metaphors appearing in entertainment news, the representation of conflict in terms of war is bloodless, without any sense of death or destruction.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…According to Han (2011), Chinese online entertainment news often employs playful metaphors concerning food: the language play happens at the lexical level and results in a formation of a FANS ARE FOOD ITEMS metaphor at the conceptual level. Food metaphors transfer fans' affection for their idols into news writing, thereby establishing an emotional bond with readers.…”

Section: Playful Metaphorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Chinese Neologisms in the Field of Fandom: From a Rhetorical Perspective

Wang

2020

IJLLS

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In this paper, I investigate Chinese neologisms in the field of fandom from a rhetorical perspective. Chinese fans either borrow existing expressions, sometimes Internet neologisms, and employ them in a novel approach, or create new expressions. Fandom neologisms may involve conceptual metaphor and conceptual metonymy. Metaphor can be categorised into playful metaphors and visual metaphors, the former of which may be concerning war, food or sex. Sex-related metaphors in fan neologisms are expressed via euphemismby means of alphabetic words, homophones and altered characters, owing to social taboo and Internet language usage regulation. In terms of fandom neologisms involving metonymy, they may be accompanied by nominalisation, verbification and hyperbole. Moreover, my observation indicates that Chinese fandom neologisms normally demonstrate semantic opaqueness, which I presume might be correlated with recognition memory. As a subcategory of Internet neologisms generated from networked grassroots communication,fandom neologisms demonstrate an upward transmission direction, as well as a potential to enter the mainstream lexicon by means of being cited by the traditional media.

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Section: Playful Metaphorsmentioning

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Section: Playful Metaphorsmentioning

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Section: Playful Metaphorsmentioning

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Wang

2020

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“…In Chinese online entertainment news, the playful use of food metaphors can be witnessed (Han 2011). The term fěnsī meaning 'dry noodles made from bean or potato starch' has been adopted as a transliteration of the English term fans.…”

Section: Mediated Food Discoursementioning

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“…The term fěnsī meaning 'dry noodles made from bean or potato starch' has been adopted as a transliteration of the English term fans. This playful use originated in online discourse about a specific television talent show, and it has given rise to a FANS ARE FOOD ITEMS metaphor in entertainment news and fans' online discourse triggering a number of creative neologisms (Han 2011). In contrast to most other studies on food metaphors, in these cases, no correspondence between the two items is posited.…”

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5. Culinary Linguistics: The Chef’s Special

Gerhardt¹,

Frobenius²,

Ley³

2015

English and American Studies in German

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CLU-SAL publishes monographs and edited collections, culturally oriented grammars and dictionaries in the cross-and interdisciplinary domain of anthropological linguistics or linguistic anthropology. The series offers a forum for anthropological research based on knowledge of the native languages of the people being studied and that linguistic research and grammatical studies must be based on a deep understanding of the function of speech forms in the speech community under study. His research focuses on spoken English, with a particular attention to narrative as well as verbal humor, and is rooted in the wide field of pragmatics. His monographs include Conversational Joking: Humor in Everyday Talk and the popular Conversational Narrative, which has recently been reprinted in paperback edition.He co-edited a handbook on phraseology and volumes on the Foundations of Pragmatics and on Humor in Interaction, which has also seen a reprint in paperback. After many years as Special Issues Editor, he is now Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Pragmatics. He also serves on the Consultation Board of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) as well as on the editorial boards of a number of journals from the fields of pragmatics and humor studies (e.g. Text and Talk and Humor).In this millennium only, he has published more than 50 articles in peerreviewed journals and edited volumes reflecting his manifold interests in language in use, its forms and functions, including topics as diverse as conjunctions, interjections, pragmatic markers, tellability, swearing, remembering, listener practices, similes, scripted performances, laughter, conflict, and the construction of identities in talk. Uniting his two passions, language and cooking, he has worked on recipes as early as 1983. His recent addition to the field of culinary linguistics is on "Conversational recipe telling" (2011).The articles in this volume were written and assembled as a token of gratitude and affection for our teacher, mentor and colleague.1. We would like to thank the student helpers of English linguistics, above all Isabel Schul and Daniel Recktenwald, for their help, and also our colleagues at the English department of Saarland University and everybody else for not "spilling the beans." Aperitivo Overview of the volume Maximiliane FrobeniusSaarland UniversityThe present volume contains a collection of original research articles from multiple disciplines, revolving around the common theme of language and food and the manifestation of the two within their cultural framework. This section gives a brief overview of the general structure of the volume and of the individual contributions.Similar to the intricate task of composing a four course meal for invited guests, the assembling of an edited volume demands a sense of "what goes together. " The metaphor of the menu serves as the vehicle for the order of contributions: we start with an introduction to the whole field of research (Antipasti), move on to contributions in the form of original research ar...

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A Metaphor Analysis of the Fifth Grade Students’ Perceptions about Writing

Erdoğan

2012

Asia-Pacific Edu Res

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Reading Chinese online entertainment news: Metaphor and language play

Cited by 11 publications

References 12 publications

Chinese Neologisms in the Field of Fandom: From a Rhetorical Perspective

Chinese Neologisms in the Field of Fandom: From a Rhetorical Perspective

5. Culinary Linguistics: The Chef’s Special

A Metaphor Analysis of the Fifth Grade Students’ Perceptions about Writing

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