Title: A Critical Metaphor Contrastive Analysis of Chinese and American Renewable Energy News Reports

Abstract: Within recent years, foreign and domestic studies of energy discourses have been in constant development, but little research is directed towards renewable energy discourses in terms of critical metaphor analysis. Based on the contrastive analysis of critical metaphors, as well as the self-constructed corpus on Chinese and American renewable energy news reports in the past ten years, this paper explores identical and different metaphors linked with these discourses, discloses origins of the identical and distinct metaphors, and points out that important factors leading to the same metaphors include the natural tendency of energy development, the responsibilities of China and America as major powers, and the commonalities of culture and thoughts between the two countries. The main reasons giving rise to correspondingly different metaphors involve the differences of ideology and social culture.

Keywords: renewable energy, Chinese and American news discourses, critical metaphor, energy news reports, energy development, contrastive analysis

Authors: Yi Peng, Associate Professor, Foreign Studies College, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, China; Bei Luo, Teaching Assistant, Hunan International Economics University, Changsha, Hunan, China