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LU Kai-ning, ZHI Ran
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2023.04.009
School of Foreign languages and Literature, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou, China School of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
This study takes the reports on China’s “One Belt, One Road” in the British and American media as the object of study, mainly by collecting more than 10,000 words from the relevant reports published in the British media The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian from 2019-2022, to create a British corpus. A number of US media outlets, such as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post, were also collected to extract over 10,000 words of relevant corpus to create a US corpus. The BFSU Qualitative Coder 1.1, AntConc 3.5.7 and the LLX2 chi-square test were used to analyse the perceptions of the British and American corpora on China’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative, and to explore the temporal, spatial and value convergence of speakers and addressees in the corpus in the context of convergence theory. In this paper, we explore the specific distribution and pragmatic functions of the convergence of speakers and addressees in the corpus, in order to explore and reveal the different features of the application of convergence strategies in the British and American corpora in relation to China’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative.
British and American corpus, convergence strategy, “One Belt, One Road”, discourse construction
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, April 2023, Vol. 13, No. 4, 286-294
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