This article examines metaphor choice in China’s official anti-corruption discourse.
Drawing on corpus data, we analyze the metaphors used by the Chinese Communist
Party and its flagship newspaper, the People’s Daily, to frame the anti-corruption
campaign and influence public perception. It is found that both embodied
experience and cultural models are recruited as the metaphoric vehicles or source
domains for the strategic profiling of different aspects of corruption and anticorruption
actions as the target domain. Additionally, metaphor choice is
systematically different in the Chinese and the English versions of the party
newspaper, reflecting that metaphor use is sensitive to sociocultural context,
especially to the knowledge base within an epistemic community

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