{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,28]],"date-time":"2026-08-28T06:03:21Z","timestamp":1787897001324,"version":"build-2784847793"},"reference-count":58,"publisher":"Public Library of Science (PLoS)","issue":"1","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,13]],"date-time":"2025-01-13T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1736726400000},"content-version":"vor","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/"}],"funder":[{"name":"Postgraduate Scientific Research Innovation Project of Hunan Province","award":["CX20210138"],"award-info":[{"award-number":["CX20210138"]}]},{"DOI":"10.13039\/501100012476","name":"Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities of the Central South University","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","award":["2021zzts0018"],"award-info":[{"award-number":["2021zzts0018"]}],"id":[{"id":"10.13039\/501100012476","id-type":"DOI","asserted-by":"publisher"}]}],"content-domain":{"domain":["www.plosone.org"],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["PLoS ONE"],"abstract":"<jats:p>The dissemination of sustainable development concepts in large international events like the Olympics has garnered great attention. As a major international sports event, the Beijing Winter Olympics served as an important platform for showcasing China\u2019s sustainable development philosophy through its official news coverage. In this context, metaphor, as a powerful cognitive tool, plays a crucial role in shaping public perception and facilitating the dissemination of values by mapping concrete source domains onto abstract target domains. This paper constructs a critical metaphor analysis framework for sustainable development, analyzing the mechanisms by which metaphors map the concepts of social, economic, and ecological sustainability, and their multifaceted roles in conveying policy proposals, ideologies, cultural values, and social group behaviors. The findings indicate that metaphors effectively facilitate public understanding of sustainability by concretizing abstract concepts. In the social dimension, metaphors emphasize fairness, cultural diversity, and social solidarity; in the economic dimension, they highlight resource recycling, technological innovation, and industrial upgrading; while in the ecological dimension, the focus is on environmental protection and the harmonious coexistence of humanity and nature. Metaphors play a crucial role in shaping public perceptions of policy, reflecting specific values and socio-cultural contexts, facilitating cultural communication and understanding, and enhancing public responsibility and participation awareness.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0317380","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,13]],"date-time":"2025-01-13T18:57:54Z","timestamp":1736794674000},"page":"e0317380","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.corrections_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Shaping sustainable perceptions: The role of metaphors in Olympic news discourse"],"prefix":"10.1371","volume":"20","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0000-6038-0349","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Wei","family":"Peng","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"340","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"pone.0317380.ref001","first-page":"109","volume-title":"The Olympics: Institutionalization and standardization of sustainability","author":"JH Lesj\u00f8","year":"2018"},{"issue":"4","key":"pone.0317380.ref002","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1002","DOI":"10.2307\/2269583","article-title":"Environmental Sustainability: Universal and Non-Negotiable.","volume":"6","author":"R Goodland","year":"1996","journal-title":"Ecol Appl"},{"key":"pone.0317380.ref003","article-title":"Sustainability and wellbeing: Human-scale development in practice.","author":"M Guillen-Royo","year":"2018","journal-title":"Routledge"},{"key":"pone.0317380.ref004","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"106061","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ecolind.2019.106061","article-title":"A critical review of studies related to construction and computation of Sustainable Development Indices","volume":"112","author":"S Kwatra","year":"2020","journal-title":"Ecol Indic"},{"issue":"2","key":"pone.0317380.ref005","first-page":"111","article-title":"Sustainable development in the context of the Olympic games","volume":"15","author":"BM Monica","year":"2015","journal-title":"Science, Movement and Health."},{"issue":"1","key":"pone.0317380.ref006","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"19","DOI":"10.1177\/21674795221122938","article-title":"Framing the games: US media coverage of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.","volume":"12","author":"J. Boykoff","year":"2024","journal-title":"Commun Sport."},{"issue":"5","key":"pone.0317380.ref007","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"951","DOI":"10.1177\/21674795221106937","article-title":"A smarter and greener Olympics: Mediatization and public reception in the preparation stage of the beijing 2022 winter Olympics.","volume":"10","author":"L Shi","year":"2022","journal-title":"Commun Sport."},{"issue":"11","key":"pone.0317380.ref008","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"7496","DOI":"10.3390\/su6117496","article-title":"Metaphors of nature and economic development: Critical education for sustainable business.","volume":"6","author":"H. Kopnina","year":"2014","journal-title":"sustainability"},{"issue":"14","key":"pone.0317380.ref009","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"8856","DOI":"10.3390\/su14148856","article-title":"The Conceptualisation of weather as a career metaphor.","volume":"14","author":"WE Donald","year":"2022","journal-title":"Sustainability"},{"key":"pone.0317380.ref010","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"34","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ecolecon.2014.11.001","article-title":"Metaphor as a mechanism of global climate change governance: A study of international policies, 1992\u20132012.","volume":"109","author":"C Shaw","year":"2015","journal-title":"Ecol Econ."},{"issue":"4","key":"pone.0317380.ref011","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.30845\/ijll.v7n4p6","article-title":"Green energy in the light of metaphors and metonymia in environmental sustainability discourses","volume":"7","author":"PC Duarte Silva","year":"2020","journal-title":"International Journal of Language & Linguistics"},{"issue":"3","key":"pone.0317380.ref012","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"329","DOI":"10.1080\/17535069.2016.1216586","article-title":"The legacies of Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics: an evaluation of the Adler Olympic Park.","volume":"10","author":"S. Azzali","year":"2017","journal-title":"Urban Res Pract"},{"issue":"7","key":"pone.0317380.ref013","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3787","DOI":"10.3390\/su13073787","article-title":"Public Perceived Effects of 2022 Winter Olympics on Host City Sustainability.","volume":"13","author":"G Yeerkenbieke","year":"2021","journal-title":"Sustainability"},{"issue":"13","key":"pone.0317380.ref014","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"8056","DOI":"10.3390\/su14138056","article-title":"Sustainable development of Olympic sport participation legacy: A scoping review based on the PAGER framework","volume":"14","author":"P Shi","year":"2022","journal-title":"Sustainability"},{"issue":"22","key":"pone.0317380.ref015","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"12879","DOI":"10.3390\/su132212879","article-title":"Do you want sustainable Olympics? environment, disaster, gender, and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.","volume":"13","author":"E. Yamamura","year":"2021","journal-title":"Sustainability"},{"key":"pone.0317380.ref016","first-page":"381","volume-title":"The Olympics and the environment.","author":"J. Karamichas","year":"2012"},{"issue":"4","key":"pone.0317380.ref017","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1129","DOI":"10.5846\/stxb201811292595","article-title":"Eco-environmental impacts of the Winter Olympic Games on host cities: A critical review","volume":"40","author":"H Guizhen","year":"2020","journal-title":"Acta Ecologica Sinica"},{"issue":"2","key":"pone.0317380.ref018","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"132","DOI":"10.2495\/SDP-V3-N2-132-146","article-title":"Sustainability and the Olympics: the case of Athens 2004","volume":"3","author":"G Tziralis","year":"2008","journal-title":"International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning"},{"key":"pone.0317380.ref019","article-title":"Sustainable land use and green ecology: A case from the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics venue legacy.","volume":"10","author":"W Wang","year":"2023","journal-title":"Front Env Sci-Switz."},{"key":"pone.0317380.ref020","first-page":"100263","article-title":"Powering green and low-carbon Olympics.","volume":"16","author":"T Shi","year":"2023","journal-title":"Environ Sci Ecotech"},{"issue":"2","key":"pone.0317380.ref021","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"109","DOI":"10.18178\/IJLLL.2023.9.2.389","article-title":"A Corpus-based contrastive research on the reports on Beijing Winter Olympics in Chinese and American media","volume":"9","author":"Q Zhang","year":"2023","journal-title":"International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics."},{"key":"pone.0317380.ref022","unstructured":"Li B, Liu Y, Zhao Y. Research on the sustainable development of Beijing Winter Olympic legacy under the sustainable development framework of the United Nations. In: Editor, editor The 5th International Conference of Sport for Development and Peace; 2022."},{"issue":"18","key":"pone.0317380.ref023","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"7712","DOI":"10.3390\/su12187712","article-title":"Public participation and information disclosure for environmental sustainability of 2022 Winter Olympics.","volume":"12","author":"G He","year":"2020","journal-title":"Sustainability"},{"issue":"13","key":"pone.0317380.ref024","article-title":"The Discursive construction of national image\u2014a case study of people\u2019s daily online\u2019s reports on Beijing Winter Olympics.","volume":"6","author":"M. Cui","year":"2023","journal-title":"Frontiers in Educational Research."},{"key":"pone.0317380.ref025","volume-title":"Metaphors We Live By","author":"G Lakoff","year":"1980"},{"key":"pone.0317380.ref026","volume-title":"The poetics of mind: figurative thought, language, and understanding.","author":"RW Gibbs","year":"1994"},{"issue":"5","key":"pone.0317380.ref027","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e12327","DOI":"10.1111\/lnc3.12327","article-title":"The role of metaphor in communication and thought.","volume":"13","author":"PH Thibodeau","year":"2019","journal-title":"Lang Linguist Compas."},{"issue":"4","key":"pone.0317380.ref028","first-page":"290","article-title":"National image construction from the perspective of multimodal metaphor\u2014a case study of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics","volume":"14","author":"Y Luo","year":"2024","journal-title":"Journal of Literature and Art Studies"},{"key":"pone.0317380.ref029","first-page":"3","article-title":"The image of china at the opening ceremony of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics based on multimodal analysis","author":"T Cai","year":"2023","journal-title":"International Journal of Humanities Education and Social Sciences"},{"key":"pone.0317380.ref030","first-page":"1","article-title":"Cognitive rhetoric in super sports reporting: unveiling perspectives through multilevel analysis of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics from five international media outlets.","volume":"2024","author":"F. Bei","journal-title":"The Journal of International Communication"},{"key":"pone.0317380.ref031","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.2307\/j.ctt5vm557","volume-title":"Metaphors for environmental sustainability: redefining our relationship with nature.","author":"B. Larson","year":"2011"},{"issue":"1","key":"pone.0317380.ref032","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1080\/10926488.2019.1591720","article-title":"Ecological cognition and metaphor.","volume":"34","author":"TW Jensen","year":"2019","journal-title":"Metaphor Symbol"},{"issue":"5","key":"pone.0317380.ref033","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"4653","DOI":"10.15666\/aeer\/2105_46534675","article-title":"The language of sustainability: exploring the implications of metaphors on environmental action and finance","volume":"21","author":"A Napari","year":"2023","journal-title":"Appl Ecol Env Res"},{"issue":"16","key":"pone.0317380.ref034","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"4464","DOI":"10.3390\/su11164464","article-title":"The opportunities and risks of the soil security metaphor: A review.","volume":"11","author":"C. Allan","year":"2019","journal-title":"Sustainability"},{"issue":"2","key":"pone.0317380.ref035","first-page":"1","article-title":"A study of ecological metaphors in the Winter Olympic Games\u2019 promotional film \"countdown: beginning of spring\".","volume":"10","author":"J Mu","year":"2023","journal-title":"Open Access Library Journal"},{"key":"pone.0317380.ref036","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1057\/9780230000612","volume-title":"Corpus approaches to critical metaphor analysis","author":"J. Charteris-Black","year":"2004"},{"issue":"12","key":"pone.0317380.ref037","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3300","DOI":"10.1016\/j.pragma.2010.06.001","article-title":"Metaphorical pattern analysis in financial texts: Framing the crisis in positive or negative metaphorical terms.","volume":"42","author":"AM Rojo L\u00f3pez","year":"2010","journal-title":"J Pragmatics."},{"key":"pone.0317380.ref038","first-page":"237","volume-title":"Of critical importance: Using electronic text corpora to study metaphor in business media discourse","author":"V. Koller","year":"2007"},{"issue":"1","key":"pone.0317380.ref039","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"99","DOI":"10.1177\/2046147X14559934","article-title":"Critical metaphor analysis of citizenship education discourse.","volume":"4","author":"M. Lee","year":"2015","journal-title":"Public Relat Inq"},{"key":"pone.0317380.ref040","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1198265","DOI":"10.3389\/fpsyg.2023.1198265","article-title":"Comparing COVID-19 metaphors in Chinese and English social media with critical metaphor analysis.","volume":"14","author":"Q. Xu","year":"2023","journal-title":"Front Psychol."},{"issue":"8","key":"pone.0317380.ref041","first-page":"97","article-title":"A Corpus-based study on metaphor in ecological discourses.","volume":"5","author":"Z Lin","year":"2022","journal-title":"Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences."},{"key":"pone.0317380.ref042","unstructured":"Skinnemoen J. An evaluation of metaphors in climate change discourse: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses; 2009."},{"issue":"06","key":"pone.0317380.ref043","first-page":"21","article-title":"A comparative analysis of metaphorical ecocriticism in climate change discourse of the two major political parties in the United States.","volume":"44","author":"S Jin","year":"2023","journal-title":"Foreign Language Teaching"},{"key":"pone.0317380.ref044","article-title":"\"Our city will be the first to hold both Summer and Winter Olympics\": A comparative analysis of how media coverage and public opinion were framed on social media in the lead up to the Beijing 2022 winter Olympic games.","volume":"14","author":"Z Yang","year":"2023","journal-title":"Front Psychol."},{"key":"pone.0317380.ref045","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1057\/9781137298041","volume-title":"Metaphor Analysis and News Corpora. Metaphor and Entertainment.","author":"C. Han","year":"2014"},{"issue":"1","key":"pone.0317380.ref046","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1080\/10926480709336752","article-title":"MIP: A method for identifying metaphorically used words in discourse.","volume":"22","author":"P. Group","year":"2007","journal-title":"Metaphor Symbol"},{"key":"pone.0317380.ref047","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"159","DOI":"10.1016\/j.tourman.2017.04.007","article-title":"\"I will never go to Hong Kong again!\" How the secondary crisis communication of \"Occupy Central\" on Weibo shifted to a tourism boycott.","volume":"62","author":"Q Luo","year":"2017","journal-title":"Tourism Manage."},{"key":"pone.0317380.ref048","volume-title":"The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research","author":"BG Glaser","year":"1967"},{"key":"pone.0317380.ref049","first-page":"461","volume-title":"Using metaphor to influence public perceptions and policy: How metaphors can save the world","author":"J. Grady","year":"2016"},{"issue":"2","key":"pone.0317380.ref050","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"113","DOI":"10.1207\/s15327868ms1202_2","article-title":"Metaphor and politics.","volume":"12","author":"JS Mio","year":"1997","journal-title":"Metaphor Symbol."},{"issue":"3","key":"pone.0317380.ref051","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"25","DOI":"10.1017\/S0266078406003051","article-title":"Ideology and metaphor.","volume":"22","author":"A Goatly","year":"2006","journal-title":"Engl Today"},{"issue":"5","key":"pone.0317380.ref052","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"557","DOI":"10.1016\/S0378-2166(97)00075-1","article-title":"Read it and believe it: How metaphor constructs ideology in news discourse.","volume":"28","author":"E Kitis","year":"1997","journal-title":"A case study. J Pragmatics."},{"key":"pone.0317380.ref053","first-page":"28","volume-title":"Metaphor in Political Discourse. Politicians and Rhetoric: The Persuasive Power of Metaphor","author":"J. Charteris-Black","year":"2011"},{"issue":"3","key":"pone.0317380.ref054","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"275","DOI":"10.1080\/1382557042000277395","article-title":"Metaphor variation in cultural context: perspectives from anthropology.","volume":"8","author":"M. Kimmel","year":"2004","journal-title":"Eur J Engl Stud"},{"issue":"2","key":"pone.0317380.ref055","first-page":"197","article-title":"Metaphor and culture.","volume":"2","author":"Z K\u00f6vecses","year":"2010","journal-title":"Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica."},{"key":"pone.0317380.ref056","volume-title":"Social psychology.","author":"S Kassin","year":"2023"},{"key":"pone.0317380.ref057","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.4324\/9781315312019","volume-title":"Conceptual metaphor in social psychology: The poetics of everyday life","author":"MJ Landau","year":"2016"},{"key":"pone.0317380.ref058","volume-title":"Social movements and metaphor. Researching Metaphors: Towards a Comprehensive Account","author":"E. Zurru","year":"2022"}],"container-title":["PLOS ONE"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/dx.plos.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0317380","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,13]],"date-time":"2025-01-13T18:58:14Z","timestamp":1736794694000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/dx.plos.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0317380"}},"subtitle":[],"editor":[{"given":"Rafael Galv\u00e3o","family":"de Almeida","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"editor"}]}],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,13]]},"references-count":58,"journal-issue":{"issue":"1","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,13]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0317380","relation":{},"ISSN":["1932-6203"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1932-6203","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,13]]}}}