1. Introduction 1
2. Literature Review of News Headlines 2
2.1 The Definition of News Headlines 2
2.2 The Function of News Headlines 3
2.2.1 Summarizing the Story 3
2.2.2 Advertising the Story 3
2.2.3 Expressing Feeling 3
2.3 Previous Study of News Headlines 4
2.3.1 Studies Abroad 4
2.3.2 Studies in China 4
3. Conceptual Metaphors 6
3.1 Concept of Conceptual Metaphors 6
3.2 The Working Mechanism of Conceptual Metaphor 7
3.3 The Characteristics of Conceptual Metaphors 8
3.3.1 Systematicity 8
3.3.2 Coherence 9
3.4 The Classification of Conceptual Metaphors 10
3.4.1 Structural Metaphors 11
3.4.2 Orientational Metaphors 11
3.4.3 Ontological Metaphors 12
4. Analysis of Conceptual Metaphors in News Headlines 13
4.1 Data Collection 13
4.2 Data Analysis 13
4.3 Specific Analysis of Conceptual Metaphors in News Headlines 14
4.3.1 War Metaphor 14
4.3.2 Weather Metaphor 15
4.3.3 Medical Metaphor 16
4.3.4 Up and Down Metaphor 16
4.3.5 Person Metaphor 18
4.4 Summary 18
5 Conclusion 20
Acknowledgements 21
References 22
ABSTRACT
This paper first generally introduces the object of news headline, and gives a brief summary of the research of home and aboard related to news headline. Then, the writer puts forward the important theoretical basis of this thesis--- conceptual metaphor in Lakeoff’s Metaphors We Live By, and help to deepening the understanding of this theory from the aspects of its definition, working Mechanism, characteristics and classification. Finally, the writer collects 60 pieces of news headlines from The New York Time and Financial Times (30 from each), and give a detailed analysis from the cognitive point according to the classification of the conceptual metaphor.
