A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis of “ Belt and Road” Initiative in Domestic and Foreign Mainstream Media News Report

The Case Study of Xinhua Daily and the Guardian

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210609.111How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Critical Discourse Analysis, “ Belt and Road” Initiative, News Report, Ideology

Abstract

In 2013, President Xi proposed “the Belt and Road” Initiative during his visit to Central Asia and northeast Asia which has vitalized global resources, created a new type of regional cooperation, and promoted global rebalancing. It has attracted great attention from Chinese and foreign media and academic circles. However, there are few scholars who carry out contrastive studies on “the Belt and Road” from the perspective of critical discourse analysis. Critical discourse analysis mainly focuses on the relationship between language, power and ideology. Since CDA was proposed, it has been widely applied in news discourse analysis to reveal the hidden ideology behind the discourse. Thus, this paper collects some of the news reports on the Belt and Road Initiative from the Guardian and Xinhua Daily as corpus to conduct a contrastive study from the perspective of critical discourse analysis. With Fairclough’s Three-Dimensional Model as the theoretical framework, it aims to reveal the different images of The Belt and Road Initiative constructed by the Guardian and Xinhua Daily and to dig out the hidden power and ideologies behind the news reports. After analyzing the news samples, this paper has drawn the following conclusions:1) China shows its confidence and eagerness in promoting the implementation of the initiative. In contrast, the UK has a suspicious and hostile attitude towards this initiative. 2) Text, discourse practice and social practice are interacted with each other. By using some linguistic devices like word choice, transitivity and modality in the texts, the Guardian misleads readers and shapes a negative image of BRI. c) News reports which hide the ideologies of writers are not totally objective, thus readers should grasp the true nature of the contradictory news accounts with critical thinking.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ge Yuhan
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/06/10
TI  - A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis of “ Belt and Road” Initiative in Domestic and Foreign Mainstream Media News Report
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange (ICLACE 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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