The Identity and Discourse in Georgian and Turkey Diplomatic Relations Between 2002-2022

This article’s primary objective is to answer the question of what is the semantic language of identity and interests of Turkey and Georgia?In addition,it analyzes the connotative quotes that exchanged between the two countries during diplomatic visits.Because the article concentrated on the remarks that were stressed during visits and meetings that took place between the years 2002 and 2022,it was necessary to search through 150 news on civil.ge site and filter down to 35 news before applying the content analysis.The AntConc corpus analysis was used in order to comprehend the nature of the political conversation between both countries.According to the findings,the constructivism of core theme that claim states view each other via the identity through interaction was verified.The purpose of the research is to provide a contribution to the study of the identities and interests of Georgia and Turkey who are good neighbors.

Personification in Chinese Diplomatic Discourse and the Construction of National Identity Based on Corpus:A Case Study of the Regular Press Conference of Ministry of Foreign Affairs

With the development of the major country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics,diplomatic discourse,as an important part of building China’s international discourse power,has attracted much attention.Personification is a common means in diplomatic discourse.By giving anthropomorphic expressions to countries,regions,institutions and policies,the purpose of building national identity and establishing national image can be achieved.Based on conceptual metaphor theory and national identity theory,this paper focuses on personification in diplomatic discourse with a case study of the regular press conference of Ministry of Foreign Affairs.It is found that the spokesperson skillfully constructed China’s positive national identity,such as peace-loving,openness and inclusiveness by using a large number of body metaphor,kinship metaphor and role metaphor.

On the Identity Construction in Question Methods and Answer Methods of Speakers： For the Discourses in Antigone

Linguistics classifies question methods into certain types. There are kinds of question methods, such as alternative question method, yes-no question method, specific question method, direct question method, indirect question method, echo question method, tag question method, miracle question method and so on. And this paper will set the characteristic discourses of protagonists in the drama of Antigone by the ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles as a research example, so as to analyze the protagonist＇s pragmatics motivation in the conversation strategies when communicating with three people in different social identity, that is to say, this paper will analyze the way that the selected question and answer methods used by the protagonist to achieve the effect of being recognized as king identity but not as a tyrant in fact. According to the dramatic text, this paper tends to make a further research on the characters＇ self-identity construction ground on the discourse characteristic of the characters. And from the perspective of modem linguistic, it is the analysis of the motivation in question methods, and the advantage and disadvantage on the discourse right implied in answer methods, that contribute to the further research on how the social identity construction and the classic character image are successfully made.

Critical Discourse Analysis of City Cultural Identity Construction—A Case Study of Video Xi tang

With the rapid development of science and technology,video has become a very important way to demonstrate the city itself.This paper,based on Fairclough's three-dimensional conception of discourse to the video of Xitang,analyzes the on-screen titles of this video to reveal the ideology behind it.Through the analysis,it points out that this video,while protecting Xitang's own unique traditional characteristics,it tries to cater for the needs not only Chinese people but also foreigners.To some extent,it tries to promote Xitang itself.

Identity Construction Discourse in the Perspective ofInter-Subjectivity-The Case of Address Forms

In daily social communication,people mainly construct their own and others'identities through discourse,and the most representative and widely used of identity-constructing discourse is address forms.In this paper,we focus on the identity-constructing function of address formsand the cognitive collaboration of their subordinate categories at the conceptual level,where different forms of address formshave obvious selection preferences in expressing specific discourse functions.Addressing has a discourse function other than the referential function,and inter-subjectivityis its underlying motivation.

Being Chinese in Lived Intercultural Experiences:A Discourse Analysis of Chinese Undergraduates’Perceptions of Chinese Culture

The current study investigates a group of Chinese undergraduates’perceptions of Chinese culture.It examines the discourses that the students drew on to assign meaning to Chinese culture and how the students used these discourses in constructing their Chinese cultural identity.A qualitative study was conducted collecting written self-reflective reports on critical intercultural incidents from 39 Chinese undergraduates at a university in Beijing.Questions designed to evoke reports from the students had them describe incidents in their past intercultural experiences that made them acutely aware of themselves“being Chinese”and specify aspects of Chinese culture that they felt such awareness could be attributed to.A discourse analysis reveals the multiplicity and contextuality of the students’notions of Chinese culture.The findings raise important considerations for contemporary Chinese undergraduates’cultural identity and their much debated“identity crisis.”

Representation and the Fluidity of Identity——David Henry Hwang's Play Yellow Face

David Henry Hwang is the first and the only Asian American playwright ever to win Tony Award for Best Play.His latest play Yellow Face combines signs,representation and the issue of identity on the stage with those in the real life,vividly interpreting the fluidity of identity.Therefore,this essay attempts to concentrate on a semiotic study of Yellow Face from the perspective of Stuart Hall's Cultural Studies,especially the discursive approach.Through the analysis of various signs in the plays to be discussed and how these signs construct meaning to represent culture,this essay explores the relationships between symbolic representations and cultural identity,shedding a new light on Yellow Face.

Photographic Image: Thematization of Its Discourses

This paper deals with thematization as a fundamental step towards the determination of photography image discourses in order to index them. It deals with questions related to photographic reality, polysemy, denotation and connotation, whose comprehension is fundamentally important for the interpretation of photography discourses. It also approaches aspects that have influenced photography analysis towards its thematization, such as the characterization of an image bank, the functions performed by photos, as well as technical and visual quality.

Retrieve Logic Flow in Discourse Analysis of Academic Paper： A Case Study of Law, Law, What Is Law

The present study shall be mainly concerned with logic flow and its expressions in academic paper. It examines Law, Law, What Law？ and intends to focus on two research goals： （1） to identify logic flow among clause complexes; （2） to figure out meanings and intentions of those logic expressions. The description and analysis shall demonstrate how the logic flow is achieved on two aspects of textual cohesive devices： grammatical cohesion and lexical cohesion. Any reader or translator ignores such devices of cohesion may not only get lost in the maze of language but miss subtle touches of irony, hence misreading the author＇s points of view.

Discursive Construction of European Identity- A Case Study on EU Documents

It has been more than four decades since "European Identity" first appeared in EEC document in 1973.Therefore,the discursive construction of the notion has undergone a long and complex process.While the representative documents of EU are the legitimate underlying file to demonstrate "European Identity" discourse pf which the systematic research is relatively barely noticed.From the horizon of "social discourse" theories,this paper focuses on sorting out the representative documents of EU,and analyses the word frequency and diachronic evolution derived from "European Identity" perception,in order to reveal the discursive legitimate progress of "European Identity" and the issues triggered from it.

A Corpus Research of the Corporate Identity--Based on the Sustainability Report of China Mobile and Annual Report of AT&T

Based on the English version of the Sustainability Report of China Mobile and the Annual Report of AT&T published in 2019 to 2020,this paper uses discourse analysis framework Discourse-Historical Approach.It explains and analyses the identity of China Mobile and AT&T and discusses the ideological factors behind their images through the analysis of referential strategy,strategies of perspectivation and strategies of intensification and mitigation.By combining the use of corpus,this paper also analyses the identity of China Mobile and AT&T from the perspective of the use of high-frequency content words,modal verbs and their concordance.By doing so,the research shows that the identity created by the English version of China Mobile’s Sustainability Report is mainly authentic and practical,focusing on management and sustainable development as well as the development of technology.While the identity of AT&T is people-friendly,concerning about equity of female,male and black people,and focusing on diversity and inclusion.

District Policy---Social Practice Through Internal and External Discourses： How the Implementation of a Single Regional Political Instrument Is Perceived, Understood and Communicated

This paper focuses on how the implementation of a single regional political instrument is perceived, understood and communicated. Designed as a regional political instrument, the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications started a pilot project： ＂Driver education as a part of upper secondary school in district Norway＂. The focal point in this paper is to explore how the professional participants understand and interpret the project as a regional political instrument in order to maintain the local community, identity and local belonging. The theoretical approach is based on Giddens＇s actor/structure theory, while the analysis based on discourse analysis, in the analysis we separated the arguments used in the professional discourse. We detected different categories of argument in the discourses among the professionals. In addition to the professional discourse, we became aware of a personal discourse. In both discourses the political instrument was perceived to be important in order to maintain the local community, create equality and maintain local identity and a sense of belonging.

Gender Identity Reflected from Language Use in Casual Conversation

Language use can reflect social identities and the way a person is presenting himself or herself to other people. As to show how gender identities can be reflected from the discourse, a casual conversation was recorded and analyzed topic, amount of talking, and other language usage features.

The Critical Discourse Analysis on Consumer discourse in housing market——a culture approach

This paper sets out from the view of discourse analysis and illustrates the approach with an analysis of discursive as-pects of consumer discourse in contemporary China,specifically in housing market.It includes a theoretical account of CDA,a fra-mework for analyzing discursive events as well as analysis of samples of the Ads of Chinese housing market.This paper concludes with a discussion of the value of critical discourse analysis as a method in social economical field.

Deviational Identity Construction in Single Mother-led Families in Contemporary China:A Qualitative Study

This article aims to provide an adequate interpretation for the dynamic construction of identity in private setting context in China. Naturally occurring conversations between single mother and daughter were examined by using discourse analysis. The result shows that participants in spoken interaction do not always communicate with each other through the expected/default identities. Rather they sometimes deviate from the identities that they are expected to construct.

A Critical Discourse Analysis on the Teacher Behavioral Norms of English Training School

With a Critical Discourse Analysis approach, this essay reveals four types of discourses: discourse of examination, instruction, technology and regulation. Based on the analysis of power relation among those discourses, a vivid picture of teachers' identity at training-school has been clearly sketched. That is, teacher at training-school is a puppet acting as not only the transmitter of specific knowledge, but also the supervisor of rules and spokesman of institution.

Identity Construction in Website News Discourse:A Corpus-assisted Comparative Study of Top 10 American and Chinese Banking Corporations

The post-COVID-19 period has witnessed the fierce trade war between America and China as the two supreme world powers in the global economic meltdown.Under these circumstances,it is essential that banking corporations due to their significant role in economic transformation and resuscitation should construct a strategic identity in the global market.In light of this,this research aims to find out what key attributes of corporate identity are projected for American banking corporations(hereinafter referred to ABCs)and for Chinese banking corporations(hereinafter referred to CBCs)in website news discourse and to highlight their similarities and differences so as to offer insight into future development.To achieve this,this research adopted monologic perspectives and two corpora were built;following MIP,a detailed systematic cognitive metaphor analysis was carried out by application of Wmatrix to examine how the three metaphors in the pyramid hierarchy(concrete metaphors,conceptual metaphors,abstract conceptual keys)collaborate with each other for semantic representation.The findings show that Both ABCs and CBCs attach strategic significance to metaphorical representation of corporate identity,whose different frequency and distribution of concrete metaphors in the semantic field THE BODY AND THE INDIVIDUAL in accordance with USAS demonstrates different attributes of corporate identity;that there is one shared abstract schema:BANKING CORPORATIONS ARE ORGANISMS;that while ABCs are constructed kings who enjoy highest social reputation and projected as doctors who can diagnose their own symptoms,CBCs are constructed as hunks who have saved many people's lives in emergency and projected as patients who have gone into therapy due to serious illness.The paper also offers empirical and theoretical implications for future research.

A Study on Typical Features of E-Discourse in Chinese

This study aimed to find the typical features of e-discourse of Chinese which are different from other literacy practices.It examined how younger groups of Chinese interact online through online chatting software(QQ) and studies the discursive linguistic strategies and features involved. The findings demonstrated how they adopted and adapted English to interact creatively and playfully in a context with spatio- temporal constraints(Werry 1996) in maintaining and establishing social contact, and to express their cultural identity through code- switching. The speech modifications and linguistic features provided evidence that within the context of Chinese e-discourse can be considered as important attributes of cultural identity.

《欧阳海之歌》沙博理译本叙事转换研究

《欧阳海之歌》因其多维叙事及其与二十世纪六七十年代国家叙事需求的适配性,成为彼时为数不多的、被翻译的中国文学作品。话语层面,沙博理对叙事结构、叙事视角、叙事时间进行了调整;故事层面,沙博理对文化故事和政治故事进行异语语境转换。在话语与故事层面,沙博理根据译者身份做出不同叙事转换。以此为视角,文章分析了译者不同策略选择的动机,发现叙事转换是译者在话语与故事层面综合考量国家翻译实践的目的、国内外语境、英语读者的阅读习惯与接受能力等后做出的平衡选择。