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Metaphor and Entertainment presents the very first, large-scale exploration of metaphor in Chinese online entertainment news, one of the most vibrant and controversial news genres in contemporary China.

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1. Introduction 2. Entertainment News Genre in China 3. Researching Metaphor in Chinese 4. Metaphor Analysis and News Corpora 5. Metaphor and Onlookers´ Entertainment 6. Metaphor and Creative and Playful Entertainment 7. Metaphor in Chinese ´Entertainmentalised´ News 8. Metaphor, Entertainment and Contemporary China

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Chong Han is Associate Lecturer in Linguistics, Translation and Interpreting at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. Her research interests are in the areas of Semantics, Discourse Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, Translation and Interpreting Studies.

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