{"title":"The Metaphor Construction of China’s National Image by the Mainstream Media in English-speaking Countries: A Case Study on Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)","authors":"Jiayi Liao, Junhong Dong","doi":"10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.3.402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.3.402","url":null,"abstract":"According to the theories of Critical Discourse Analysis and Social Constructivism, a country’s image is constructed. As a crucial channel to construct and spread national images, media frequently adopt metaphor as a discourse strategy to construct national images. Based on a corpus of 147 reports on Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) by the mainstream media in Englishspeaking countries, such as the U.K., the U.S., Canada, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, the Philippines, and Malaysia, this study is guided by the framework of Critical Metaphor Analysis to extract metaphors in the corpus. On this basis, this study discusses the metaphorical construction of China’s national image by the mainstream media in English-speaking countries, and their attitudes towards China behind their use of metaphors.","PeriodicalId":408181,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124266948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Study of Corpus-Based Translation for China’s Global Communication from the Perspective of Critical Discourse — A Case Study of the 2011&2022 Report on the Work of the Government","authors":"Yiran Chen, Hongmei Ruan","doi":"10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.3.411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.3.411","url":null,"abstract":"As China’s comprehensive national power continues to grow and its global influence expands, China’s status in the international arena is receiving increasing attention, and the enhancement of its international status requires an international discourse that is compatible with it. This research focuses on the analysis of the translation of Chinese political discourse represented by Report on the Work of the Government (RWG), and selected corpus is the Chinese and English versions of 2011&2022 Report on the Work of the Government. The translation of RWG not only contains a large amount of ideological content, but also requires the realization of the communication effect in the context of the target language. At the same time, the RWG requires a high degree of loyalty to the original text, but also pays attention to the acceptance and reaction of readers. Traditional domestication strategies cannot adapt to the dialectical and dynamic relationship between discourse and social practice, so this study adopts the interdisciplinary perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis to analyze the corpus.","PeriodicalId":408181,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115811529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Identity Crisis to Identity Construction: A Study of Identity Issues in Beloved","authors":"Qian Zhang, Yu Sun","doi":"10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.3.408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.3.408","url":null,"abstract":"The 1993 Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison is one of the most prominent black female writers in contemporary American literature. Beloved is her very outstanding work and wins the Pulitzer Prize for Best Novel. It reveals the darkness of slavery and its torture towards the blacks. This paper tries to show the tragic destiny of the blacks, criticize the extremely negative influence of cultural hegemony and the other, and explore ways to construct identity. The colonialism and racism of cultural hegemony and the other are the prime causes of identity crisis. The blacks should face the miserable history bravely, dissolve the erosion of white culture, recover and develop black culture on the basis of traditional culture. Only in this way, can they come out of the shadow and obtain true freedom.","PeriodicalId":408181,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133488094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discourse Analysis of Xinhua News Agency’s Social Media Content: A Review of Xinhua’s Reporting Perspectives of China’s Belt and Road Initiative","authors":"Yuxi Nie","doi":"10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.3.400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.3.400","url":null,"abstract":"The use of digital media has gone through a major transition in China in the last decade. To study how China’s major official media outlet, Xinhua News Agency, interacts with social media, this paper examines the measures Xinhua has taken to promote the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) through digital channels. As an important part of the Chinese diplomacy, on the one hand, the Belt and Road Initiative shows Chinese leadership is calling for a proactive role in international relations; on the other hand, its establishment has caused contentions in the international media sphere. Based on Foucault’s approach on discourse, this paper examines the Chinese state media’s handling of the case on social media platforms Twitter and Sina Weibo in both the Chinese and English languages.","PeriodicalId":408181,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124227149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Study of News Discourse from the Perspective of Fairclough’s Three-Dimensional Model","authors":"Yayin Wu, Yi Zhang","doi":"10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.2.392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.2.392","url":null,"abstract":"The coronavirus spreads at a horrendous speed and has influenced people’s lives. Based on Fairclough’s threedimensional model, this paper, with quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis, chooses thirty texts from The New York Times and then dissects them by means of the corpus AntConc 3.5.8 and manual collection from three angles including text, discursive practice and social practice. It is found that in the dimension of text, high-frequency words demonstrate the severe status quo of the epidemic, while words with emotional meanings show reporters’ critical views. In the dimension of discursive practice, Indirect speech as a preponderant reporting mode shows that subjective moods exist in news reports. In the dimension of social practice, five mainstream values deeply rooted in American people’s minds influence their attitudes towards the epidemic. This paper reveals the relationship between language and society in news reports on the Covid-19 epidemic, promoting the process of researches on critical discourse analysis of news reports on public health events.","PeriodicalId":408181,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115704869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Classification and Textual Function of Conclusions in Text and Paragraphs","authors":"Biyu Wu, Jiayao Fan, Hui Sun","doi":"10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.2.397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.2.397","url":null,"abstract":"Text and paragraph are two forms of discourse. Their conclusions are similar in structure and semantics. There are three types of conclusion sentence in paragraphs: closing sentence, comment sentence, concluding sentence. The closing sentence is the restatement of the theme of the paragraph and generally has a discourse marker indicating a summary; The comment sentence is the remark on the topic of the paragraph; The concluding sentence is the ending of the paragraph with both summary and comment. When the conclusion sentence is in the thesis paragraph, it is also the thesis statement of the text. There are two types of paragraphs in the conclusion part of the text: the transitional paragraph and the conclusion paragraph. The latter is a summary and comment on the topic of the text. Usually, the topic sentence of the conclusion paragraph, often accompanied by discourse markers indicating the general conclusion, is the closing sentence of the text, which forms a circulation in viewpoint with the thesis statement of the text through lexical cohesion of keyword repetition. The conclusion sentence of the conclusion paragraph is the comment sentence of the text, which forms an emotional echo with the title of the text and realizes the sublimation of the theme.","PeriodicalId":408181,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics","volume":"420 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117341808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Infixed Reduplication under Kalin’s Infixation Process","authors":"James Cooper Roberts","doi":"10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.2.388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.2.388","url":null,"abstract":"Infixed reduplication is a morphophonological process where a word in whole or part is copied and re-inserted into the word. A previous article (which this work is based primarily on) posits a specific order for the infixation process, simplified as follows: Concatenation > Exponent Choice > Linear Displacement > Prosodification. However, the author of said work does not directly address infixed reduplication in their study. This raises two important questions. When in the infixation process does reduplication occur? Furthermore, is this timing universal, or is there variation across languages? In this study, I examine this issue by first establishing a typology for infixed reduplicants based on the timing of reduplication relative to linear displacement. Diagnostic tools to determine a reduplicant’s category are also provided. I then analyze infixed reduplication phenomena from 33 different languages and classify them. Ultimately, I find that the time reduplication occurs is not consistent across languages. The paper concludes with an overview of the implications of the current study and avenues for further inquiry.","PeriodicalId":408181,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics","volume":"130 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121964970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pre-fortis Clipping Patterns: A Cross Linguistic Examination of L2 English Production and Perception by Asian Learners of English","authors":"Nguyen Van Le","doi":"10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.2.387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.2.387","url":null,"abstract":"In English, it is widely observed that vowels are longer before voiced consonants than before voiceless ones such as English. However, in Mandarin Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Korean, the distribution of voiced-voiceless stop contrasts, and long-short vowel differences are vastly different from English. The purpose of this study is to determine whether these targeted learners’ L2 English production and perception change in terms of vowel duration as a function of stop voicing. The production measurements in the database of Asian learners revealed a distinct effect than the one observed in native speakers. There were no evident vowel lengthening patterns. The results of the perceptual experiment with 24 participants indicated that individuals tended to prefer voiceless stops when preceding vowels were shortened, but there was no statistically significant difference between intermediate, upper-intermediate, and advanced-level learners. However, learners demonstrated distinct perceptual patterns for various vowels and stops. The findings have valuable implications for L2 English speech acquisition.","PeriodicalId":408181,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125884990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimality Theory and the Development of Do-Support in Children’s Wh-Questions","authors":"Nobuyo Fukaya","doi":"10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.2.395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.2.395","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to explore where-, how-, and why-questions produced by young L1 English-speaking children and to account for how children develop wh-questions within Optimality Theory (OT). For this purpose, the data have been collected from the Child Language Data Exchange System database. The analysis showed that where-questions were produced earlier than how- and why-questions and that early where-questions tended to fail subject-auxiliary inversion in the early stages. Another finding is that children produced howquestions with subject-auxiliary inversion even when howquestions started to be attested. To account for the developmental differences observed in the data, I propose an OT analysis. This study shows the applicability of OT to syntactic language development and demonstrates that OT provides a unified account of the development of wh-questions by reranking the same constraint set. Moreover, a developmental difference shown in wh-phrases can also be accounted for by assuming that the constraint, Operator in Specifier (OP-SPEC), can be divided into sub-constraints.","PeriodicalId":408181,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123187755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Corpus-Based Contrastive Research on the Reports on Beijing Winter Olympics in Chinese and American Media","authors":"Qiyue Zhang, Hongrui Li, Sai Luo","doi":"10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.2.389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.2.389","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 epidemic, the biggest “black swan” event of recent years, has a profound impact on international relations and accelerates the evolution of the international relations pattern. The strategic interaction between China and the United States has taken on new characteristics, with a proliferation of Cold War thinking and conservative ideology in the United States and a rise in hostility towards China, as evidenced by the China-related reports in the New York Times, a mainstream media in the United States. The Olympic Games, as a worldwide sporting event, is covered in detail by the media of various countries. Due to the influence of political stance, ideology and cultural differences, the expression of emotions and value evaluation of the coverage of the Olympic Games vary among the media of different countries. Based on a self-built corpus, this paper compares and analyses the coverage of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics by the New York Times and the People’s Daily, the mainstream media in China and the US, from four parts of the corpus, including subject words, index lines, collocative words and collocative phrases, in conjunction with critical discourse analysis theory. The aim is to compare the different reporting strategies of the mainstream media in China and the United States when the Winter Olympic Games were held in Beijing, analyze the reasons for the differences in the coverage of the Olympic Games, and understand the perspective of American media workers, their communication skills that different from China, thereby achieving mutual communication between the Chinese and American media, eliminating misunderstandings and jointly creating a favorable international dissemination environment. This will ultimately contribute to building a new type of international relations with win-win cooperation and establishing an international image conducive to China’s development.","PeriodicalId":408181,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics","volume":"189 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131288386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}