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While these two examples may be incomprehensible even to some Chinese readers, they will be instantly recognised by people familiar with the TV talent show Super Girl, a singing competition for female contestants organised by Hunan Satellite Television between 2004 and 2006. These examples involve the use of two metaphorical expressions, which are among the top five metaphor candidates in the keyword list, but do not occur in the Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese. These two expressions are presented in Table 6.1.
‘The unexpected appearance of Kim Jeong Hoon, the main actor in the Korean soap opera Love in Palace, made ‘dry noodles’ scream madly.’
‘Huayi Brothers Artist Agency and Orange Sky Entertainment Group engaged in intense PK for influence ranking at the Shanghai Film Festival.’
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An early and shorter version of this chapter was published in Journal of Pragmatics, Han, C. (2011). Reading Chinese Online Entertainment News: Metaphor and Language play. Journal of Pragmatics, 43(14): 3473–3488.
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Han, C. (2014). Metaphor and Creative and Playful Entertainment. In: Metaphor and Entertainment. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137298041_6
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