国外媒体“一带一路”话语表征对比分析——基于语料库的语义韵研究

Contrastive Analysis of Discursive Representations of One Belt One Road Initiative by Foreign Media——A Corpus-based Semantic Prosody Study

2013年习近平主席提出"一带一路"战略构想至今已有三年,全球媒体持续关注。文章基于Lexis Nexis新闻数据库,以2013年9月至2016年6月《纽约时报》、《印度时报》和《海峡时报》的报道为研究样本,在语义韵和评价理论框架内考察不同意识形态的国家媒体对"一带一路"话语建构的特征、差异以及原因。研究发现,美印新三国媒体的"一带一路"术语的英文表达并不一致,其修饰语和指称详略度不同,映射其关注度的高低;《印度时报》显性表达政府对"一带一路"倡议的冷淡态度,《纽约时报》通过对其他国家隐性评价表达美国的反对立场,《海峡时报》则通过积极反应与积极价值词汇构建了对"一带一路"倡议的大力支持。

After President Xi Jinping put forward One Belt One Road Initiative in 2013,there is much media coverage on this issue. This paper,based on the Lexis Nexis data of The New York Times,The Times of India and The Strait Times during September 2013 to June 2016,within the theoretical framework of semantic prosody and appraisal theory,explores the discursive construction of Belt and Road in the different ideological contexts. Findings demonstrate that the three newspapers represent the same social reality out of different stances and interests. They apply different terms to refer to Yidai Yilu. The Times of India explicitly demonstrates Indian government＇s cold attitude,while The New York Times implicitly reveals its negative attitude. Through lexis of positive reaction and valuation,The Straits Times portrays overwhelming support for One Belt One Road Initiative.