Corpus-driven Analysis on Chinese Image in APEC -- Speeches at Economic Leaders’ Meetings
Journal: Region - Educational Research and Reviews DOI: 10.32629/rerr.v7i2.3472
Abstract
This paper conducts an analysis of Chinese image construction. Under the circumstance of Corpus controlled, two research questions are proposed. For the first question of linguistic features, the paper utilizes the keywords and the diachronic N-grams analyses respectively to find that three groups of Lemmas and four key diachronic headwords. For the last question, according to semantic prosody of Concordance analysis, the images are constructed by the economic vigorousness, the environmental friendliness, and an abided role in APEC rules.
Keywords
corpus, APEC, Chinese image, image construction
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[3] Lakoff G. Johnson M. Metaphors we live by [M]. Chicago: Chicago University Press. 1980.
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[5] Martin, J.R. P.R. White. The Language of Evaluation [M]. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2005.
[6] Wu Jianguo, Ma Chunyu, Song Yue. A Critical Metaphor Analysis of the Chinese Diplomatic Discourse from the Perspective of National Image Construction [J]. Chinese Language Strategy. 2024.
[7] Zhang Cun. Liu Guiling. A Study on Audiences’ Acceptance and Reconstruction of City Image from the Perspective of Appraisal Theory [J]. Journal of ZheJiang International Studies University. 2024.
[8] Zhang Yilin. Liu Guiling. A Study on National Image Construction from the Perspective of Framing Theory [J]. Journal of Changchun University of Science and Technology. 2020.
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