Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Culture, Design and Social Development (CDSD 2021)

“RCEP” in the Eyes of Western Media

A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis

Authors
Meifang Li1, *, Xinan Zhou1
1School of international studies, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
*Corresponding author. Email: lmf_rebecca@163.com
Corresponding Author
Meifang Li
Available Online 24 January 2022.
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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Culture, Design and Social Development (CDSD 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
24 January 2022
ISBN
978-94-6239-520-6
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220109.083How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
Open Access
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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