1. Introduction
1.1 Research background
1.2 Objectives of the research
1.3 Significance of the research
1.4 Organization of the thesis
2. Literature Review
2.1 Previous studies on metaphor
2.2 Previous studies on Critical Metaphor Analysis
2.3 Related studies on application of Critical Metaphor Analysis in political discourse
2.4 Related contrastive studies on application of Critical Metaphor Analysis to political discourse
3. Theoretical Foundation
3.1 Conceptual Metaphor Theory
3.2 Critical Metaphor Analysis theory
4. Research Design
4.1 Research questions
4.2 Data collection
4.3 Research tools
4.4 procedures of the analysis of the two corpora
5. The Contrastive Analysis of Government Work Report of China (2019) and the State of the Union Address of America (2019)
5.1 Contextual analysis of the two corpora
5.2 Metaphor identification of the two corpora
5.3 Metaphor interpretation of the two corpora
5.4 Metaphor explanation of the two corpora
6.Conclusion
6.1 Major findings
6.2 Limitations and suggestions for further researches
参考文献
致谢
Publications
山西师范大学;