话语、身份建构与中国东盟关系——《人民日报》与《海峡时报》新闻标题对比分析

Discourse,Identity Construction and China-ASEAN Relations:A Contrastive Analysis of News Headlines from People’s Daily and Strait Times

本文以中国东盟关系的话语建构为例,把语言学研究领域的批评话语分析研究(CDA)和后现代国际关系理论及建构主义理论的相关视角相结合,对《人民日报》(海外版,2000—2008)和《海峡时报》(2000-2008)与中国东盟关系相关的新闻标题进行对比分析,以此揭示话语、身份建构与中国东盟关系的互动。分析发现,近年来中国东盟双边关系的改善与双方报纸增加彼此正面身份的建构存在正相关关系;后现代国际关系和建构主义理论主张的'国家身份是建构的和变化的'观点是合理的;CDA能为国际关系领域的语言研究提供其所急需的话语分析工具。

The article carries out a contrastive critical discourse analysis(CDA)of the news headlines selected from People’s Daily(international version,2000-2008)and Strait Times(2000-2008)so as to reveal the interaction between discourse,identity construction and China-ASEAN relations.The analysis shows that:1)Both sides construct more than one identity for each other;2)The recent improvement of China-ASEAN relations is positively relevant to the increasing construction by Chinese and ASEAN(Singaporean)newspapers of each other’s positive identities;3)The postmodernist and constructivist view that“national identity is constructed and dynamic”is acceptable;4)CDA can offer IR studies the tool for detailed discourse analysis of which the latter is in desperate need.