US-China Foreign Language, February 2019, Vol. 17, No. 2, 74-81
doi:10.17265/1539-8080/2019.02.003 Media Reprentation of China’s Policy in US Media Coverage
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of South China Sea Dispute: A Semantic Prosody Analysis梦见老房子
ZHANG Dan
Hainan University, Danzhou, China
WANG Qian
Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China教师承诺
This study examines the reprentation of China’s policy in the media reporting of the South China Sea dispute in河道管理
The New York Times and The Washington Post by investigating the mantic prosody of the term “China” with a
corpus-bad approach. The analysis of collocates of China, namely “claim, action, disputes” in the co-text of
concordances indicates that media reprentation of China in US news coverage is associated with negative
不一样的春节>饥寒的反义词mantic prosodies that revolve around China’s territorial claims, island construction, and resolution of the dispute.
黑骏马读后感This reveals that the stance of news report is influenced by its social, cultural, and political context.
Keywords: South China Sea dispute, media reprentation, corpus linguistics, mantic prosody
Introduction
Originated in the 1970s, the South China Sea dispute has become the most nsitive and hottest issue in recent years with the change of international relations. More than 20 countries are involved i
n the dispute, arguing over rich natural resources and important geographical strategic locations in the South China Sea region. The news media around the globe put the spotlight on the development of South China Sea dispute, especially the relationship between China and some Southeast Asian countries, such as Vietnam, Philippines, etc. Although news reporting is required to be objective and authentic, some news reports tend to deliberately emphasize some carefully lected “facts” and implicitly convey the prejudice ideology in the news text driven by various interest-bad relationships or different ideologies. In this n, media discour has the capacity to influence and control the thoughts of audience to some extent (Van Dijk, 1996), and even mislead them in an implicit way to understand this issue. Similarly, the news reporting of South China Sea dispute also plays a key role in influencing and shaping the knowledge and attitude of international communities towards this hot issue.
This study intends to investigate the mantic prosody of the term “China” in US news reporting of the South China Sea with a corpus-bad methodology, aiming to examine how China is reprented in the reporting.
Acknowledgement: This study is supported by Philosophical and Social Science Project of Hainan Province “A Study of China’s National Image Bad on the Analysis of News Report on South China
Sea” (Grant No. HNSK(QN) 16-131), Teaching Reform Project of NWPU 2018, and Higher Education Rearch Fund of NWPU (G2018KY0207).
ZHANG Dan, MA, lecturer, Institute of Tropical Agriculture and Forestry, Hainan University, Danzhou, China.
WANG Qian, MA, Associate Professor, School of Foreign Studies, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China.
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