The Embodied Understanding of Cognitive Construction of Metaphors in News Headlines—on the Chinese and English Media Headlines of the Belt and Road Initiative

The cognitive differences exist between Chinese and English media in their perception of the Belt and Road Initiative(BRI).To understand the cognitive prominence and cultural coherence of metaphorical mapping in BRI news report, the news headlines covering BRI from Chinese and English media have been selected to conduct a contrastive analysis of the cognitive prominence constructions of the metaphorical conceptual integration hidden in different media.The empirical traces of news texts are most likely to activate embodied perceptual-motor skills, which highlights the cognitive differences from visual, auditory and kinesthetic perspectives.They provide sufficient conditions for the production, and comprehension of second language and realize the implementation of language learning in real life.