A Study on Conceptual Metaphors in the Commentary of the English Promotional Film Encountering Love At West Lake from an Intercultural Perspective
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the context of globalization, promotional films are a key tool for cultural diplomacy and soft power projection. This study examines how conceptual metaphors (CMs) in the English promotional film Encountering Love at West Lake facilitate the cross-cultural communication of Chinese cultural narratives. Grounded in Conceptual Metaphor Theory, this research employs textual analysis to identify and classify CMs (e.g., LOVE IS A JOURNEY, WEST LAKE IS A MIRROR) within the film’s commentary. It investigates how these metaphors encode traditional Chinese values such as harmony and perseverance, and how they function from an intercultural perspective to bridge—or occasionally complicate—cultural understanding. The findings reveal that CMs serve as effective cognitive bridges, enhancing emotional resonance and making abstract cultural concepts accessible to international audiences. The study concludes that the strategic use of metaphor is crucial for effective cultural promotion, offering practical implications for the translation and localization of cultural content and contributing to methodologies in intercultural discourse analysis.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".