Abstract
This study analyzes the use of WAR metaphors in maritime English news and thus explores the relationship between metaphorical expressions and their collocates by using corpus analysis tools and a semi-artificial metaphor recognition method. Qualitative analysis indicates that three types of WAR metaphors are employed, FRONTLINE, BULLET and INVASION. Additionally, we investigate the regularity of the metaphor words and find that these metaphorical expressions often occur with less frequently used content words, and typically collocate with words that are found in the keyword list. Our results also demonstrate that while keywords serve as indicators of the text’s main content, metaphors act as implicit indicators of the underlying attitudes conveyed in the text.
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