經(jīng)濟(jì)類英文期刊中隱喻理解的有效途徑.pdf

1、More than 100 examples are chosen from three significant Englishbusiness magazines and analyzed from two modes top-down mode andbottom-up mode. It is found context plays a crucially important role in metaphor understandi

2、ng. After a careful analysis of the economic and business discourses during the research, a conclusion about approaches to metaphor understanding is drawn.Firstly, metaphor in English business magazines can be understood

3、 though both the top-down mode and the bottom-up mode. The only difference between the two lies in the role ofcontext during the process of imderstanding.Secondly, only when context or background of the passage is very f

4、amiliar to readers, the top-down mode wnuld be a more effective approach.Thirdly, the bottom-up mode is more effective for the majority ofmetaphor used in economy-related discourse.In conclusion, both of the modes can ac

5、hieve the goal to understand metaphor in English economy-related magazines. But due to many readers' lack of background knowledge of various subjects in business articles, the bottom-up mode is more effective than the to