Dongman Cai
List of John Benjamins publications in which Dongman Cai is involved.
Articles
2025 Zero-sum or Win-win Game? Comparative studies on sports/game metaphors and ideological framing in economic news on Sino, EU and US trade disputes Aspects of Metaphor, Theodoropoulou, Maria (ed.), pp. 182–207 | Article
Metaphors can express ideological and evaluative positions. However, comparative studies on the framing implications of sports/game metaphors in Western and Chinese contexts remain underexplored. This study examines how journalists in China, the UK, and the US use sports/game metaphors to frame… read more
2025 The evolution of protectionism metaphors in English-language media: A diachronic study across China, the UK, and the US (2001–2019) Pragmatics and Society: Online-First Articles | Article
This study investigates the evolution of protectionism metaphors in English-language media across China, the UK, and the US from 2001 to 2019. It reveals varying degrees of fundamental and incremental changes with cultural variations in the three corpora based on a refined metaphor evolution… read more