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A Referendum Is a Forward-Moving Object or a Bundled Object?

Authors : Ren-feng Duann, Kathleen Ahrens, Chu-Ren Huang

Published in: Chinese Lexical Semantics

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This article analyzes how a referendum is represented through the use of conceptual metaphors in two major newspapers in Taiwan, the Liberty Times and the United Daily News. The analysis indicates that a general schema for the referendum a causer causes an object to move or stop, which is further divided to the forward-moving and stopping sub-schemas, can be retrieved from the metaphors used. Moreover, it shows that three expressions for the forward-moving sub-schema, as lexicalized in the legislation domain, are predominant in the representation of the referendum. With the inevitability to use the general schema, the two newspapers take strategies to elaborate or neutralize the effects embedded in the schema, so as to transmit their respective political stances.

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Footnotes
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The wording of the referendum question, National Referendum Proposal No. 5, is translated by Lu [9] as follows: In 1971, the People’s Republic of China joined the United Nations, replacing the Republic of China and making Taiwan an international orphan. Do you agree that the government, in a strong expression of the will of the Taiwanese people and in order to elevate Taiwan’s international status and promote its international participation, should join the United Nations under the name ‘Taiwan’?
 
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The Word Sketch of the Sketch Engine (https://​the.​sketchengine.​co.​uk/​ipauth/​) presents how a word behave, e.g. as a subject or an object, in a sentence. According to the Word Sketch of the Chinese Gigaword, the grammatical objects of https://static-content.springer.com/image/chp%3A10.1007%2F978-3-030-04015-4_17/MediaObjects/471604_1_En_17_Figab_HTML.png include https://static-content.springer.com/image/chp%3A10.1007%2F978-3-030-04015-4_17/MediaObjects/471604_1_En_17_Figac_HTML.png ‘democratic reforms’, https://static-content.springer.com/image/chp%3A10.1007%2F978-3-030-04015-4_17/MediaObjects/471604_1_En_17_Figad_HTML.png https://static-content.springer.com/image/chp%3A10.1007%2F978-3-030-04015-4_17/MediaObjects/471604_1_En_17_Figae_HTML.png ‘constitutional reform’, https://static-content.springer.com/image/chp%3A10.1007%2F978-3-030-04015-4_17/MediaObjects/471604_1_En_17_Figaf_HTML.png ‘policy’, https://static-content.springer.com/image/chp%3A10.1007%2F978-3-030-04015-4_17/MediaObjects/471604_1_En_17_Figag_HTML.png ‘scheme’, https://static-content.springer.com/image/chp%3A10.1007%2F978-3-030-04015-4_17/MediaObjects/471604_1_En_17_Figah_HTML.png ‘plan’, https://static-content.springer.com/image/chp%3A10.1007%2F978-3-030-04015-4_17/MediaObjects/471604_1_En_17_Figai_HTML.png ‘bill’, etc., and the grammatical subject of this process includes the unit of legislation or implementation: e.g. https://static-content.springer.com/image/chp%3A10.1007%2F978-3-030-04015-4_17/MediaObjects/471604_1_En_17_Figaj_HTML.png ‘government’, https://static-content.springer.com/image/chp%3A10.1007%2F978-3-030-04015-4_17/MediaObjects/471604_1_En_17_Figak_HTML.png ‘ministries and councils’, etc. The grammatical subjects of https://static-content.springer.com/image/chp%3A10.1007%2F978-3-030-04015-4_17/MediaObjects/471604_1_En_17_Figal_HTML.png ‘to pass (through)’ contain https://static-content.springer.com/image/chp%3A10.1007%2F978-3-030-04015-4_17/MediaObjects/471604_1_En_17_Figam_HTML.png ‘bill’, https://static-content.springer.com/image/chp%3A10.1007%2F978-3-030-04015-4_17/MediaObjects/471604_1_En_17_Figan_HTML.png ‘statute’, https://static-content.springer.com/image/chp%3A10.1007%2F978-3-030-04015-4_17/MediaObjects/471604_1_En_17_Figao_HTML.png ‘amendment’, https://static-content.springer.com/image/chp%3A10.1007%2F978-3-030-04015-4_17/MediaObjects/471604_1_En_17_Figap_HTML.png ‘resolution’, https://static-content.springer.com/image/chp%3A10.1007%2F978-3-030-04015-4_17/MediaObjects/471604_1_En_17_Figaq_HTML.png ‘draft’, etc. Regarding https://static-content.springer.com/image/chp%3A10.1007%2F978-3-030-04015-4_17/MediaObjects/471604_1_En_17_Figar_HTML.png ‘to pass the pass’, expressions in the lawmaking field such as https://static-content.springer.com/image/chp%3A10.1007%2F978-3-030-04015-4_17/MediaObjects/471604_1_En_17_Figas_HTML.png ‘extension case’, https://static-content.springer.com/image/chp%3A10.1007%2F978-3-030-04015-4_17/MediaObjects/471604_1_En_17_Figat_HTML.png ‘reconsideration case’, etc., are dominant. It is obvious that these three lexemes are widely used and lexicalized in the legislation domain.
 
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Metadata
Title
A Referendum Is a Forward-Moving Object or a Bundled Object?
Authors
Ren-feng Duann
Kathleen Ahrens
Chu-Ren Huang
Copyright Year
2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04015-4_17

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