Author(s)

Dan Wang

Corresponding Author

Dan Wang

Abstract

This paper builds on the metaphor theory in cognitive linguistics and analyzes the metaphor concept in Xi Jinping’s speeches, particularly word and phrases metaphor by establishing a corpus of Xi Jinping’s speeches to explore the types of metaphor in his speeches, their functions and different metaphor strategies. The result finds out eight types of metaphor, which are contributive to deliver president Xi’s administrative purpose and make it easy to understand his thoughts by ordinary people.

Keywords

Metaphor, Corpus, Xi jinping’s speeches