“RCEP” in the Eyes of Western Media

A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220109.083How to use a DOI?

Keywords

RCEP; critical discourse analysis; corpus; western media

Abstract

Based on the self-built corpus of the news reports on the recently-signed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the present study aims at disclosing the western media’s perception of this China-led achievement and thus, revealing the ideology hidden in the news discourse. The present study takes frequency, keyword, concordance lines and collocation network as indicators to conduct a multi-dimensional interpretation on the image of the RCEP constructed by the western media. It is found that the western media generally held a positive attitude towards the “RCEP” and associated it with desirable expressions. However, there is also evidence of them holding prejudices against it, linking it to “geopolitical expansion” and “geocentrism”. Besides, it is observed that the western media believed that the “RCEP” would be closely related to global economic development but they might have built different images of the two most frequently mentioned countries (i.e., “China” and “India”) through disparate lexical choices. As international relations are unceasingly getting tense, further studies applying the corpus method are encouraged to track the changes and developments in the depiction of the “RCEP” by the western media.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Meifang Li
AU  - Xinan Zhou
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/01/24
TI  - “RCEP” in the Eyes of Western Media
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Culture, Design and Social Development (CDSD 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 401
EP  - 408
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220109.083
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220109.083
ID  - Li2022
ER  -