Government Work Report is essential for domestic and international understanding of China’s national conditions.This paper selects the national defense section in Government Work Reports released by the State Council...Government Work Report is essential for domestic and international understanding of China’s national conditions.This paper selects the national defense section in Government Work Reports released by the State Council of the People’s Republic of China over the last fifteen years from 2009 to 2023 as an example of China’s official discourse.From the perspective of positive discourse analysis,the theory of three meta-functions of language proposed by M.A.K.Halliday in Systemic Functional Linguistics is used in this article in terms of transitivity,appraisal,mood,modality,and theme to explore the constructing of the People’s Liberation Army(PLA)image.This study finds that,by using the goals and circumstances with optimistic meaning in material processes,adopting more appreciation in attitude,applying more declaratives in mood,utilizing modal operators with high modulation,and implicit objective modal adjuncts,and employing government-focused themes,China’s official discourse objectively and authentically conveys a positive image of the brave and just PLA both at home and abroad which advocates itself to peace-keeping,and mission-fulfilling.展开更多
Based on corpus-related software and strategic framework of explicitation translation in applied texts,this paper uses Report on the Work of the Government as an example and explore the explicitation in political text...Based on corpus-related software and strategic framework of explicitation translation in applied texts,this paper uses Report on the Work of the Government as an example and explore the explicitation in political texts.According to the research results,political texts have shown explicitation in four sectors of the framework,especially the sector of first person plural pronouns,with quantity,language,culture,and others as influential factors.展开更多
A Review of China’s Economic and Social Development in 2015 In the past year,China has encountered many difficulties and challenges in its development.However,under the leadership of the Central Committee of the Comm...A Review of China’s Economic and Social Development in 2015 In the past year,China has encountered many difficulties and challenges in its development.However,under the leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China(CPC)headed by General Secretary Xi Jinping,and with confidence and courage,all the people of China have worked to overcome obstacles and have pressed展开更多
The Report on the work of government(2020)is an annually political discourse,which provides a consistent topic to linguistic research.And conceptual metaphor provided by George Lakoff,is an important part of cognitive...The Report on the work of government(2020)is an annually political discourse,which provides a consistent topic to linguistic research.And conceptual metaphor provided by George Lakoff,is an important part of cognitive linguistics and a way of discourse analysis.From the perspective of conceptual metaphor,this study explores proportion and distribution of conceptual metaphor used in the discourse,and analyzes the function of major metaphors.It is proved that there are totally 12 categories of metaphors,which are made up of 8 major metaphor and 4 minor metaphor.The major metaphors function hierarchically and reflect effect of epidemic represented in the discourse.By analyzing the conceptual metaphor in the discourse,it is expected to shade a light on the understanding of metaphor illustration of the discourse.展开更多
文摘Government Work Report is essential for domestic and international understanding of China’s national conditions.This paper selects the national defense section in Government Work Reports released by the State Council of the People’s Republic of China over the last fifteen years from 2009 to 2023 as an example of China’s official discourse.From the perspective of positive discourse analysis,the theory of three meta-functions of language proposed by M.A.K.Halliday in Systemic Functional Linguistics is used in this article in terms of transitivity,appraisal,mood,modality,and theme to explore the constructing of the People’s Liberation Army(PLA)image.This study finds that,by using the goals and circumstances with optimistic meaning in material processes,adopting more appreciation in attitude,applying more declaratives in mood,utilizing modal operators with high modulation,and implicit objective modal adjuncts,and employing government-focused themes,China’s official discourse objectively and authentically conveys a positive image of the brave and just PLA both at home and abroad which advocates itself to peace-keeping,and mission-fulfilling.
文摘Based on corpus-related software and strategic framework of explicitation translation in applied texts,this paper uses Report on the Work of the Government as an example and explore the explicitation in political texts.According to the research results,political texts have shown explicitation in four sectors of the framework,especially the sector of first person plural pronouns,with quantity,language,culture,and others as influential factors.
文摘A Review of China’s Economic and Social Development in 2015 In the past year,China has encountered many difficulties and challenges in its development.However,under the leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China(CPC)headed by General Secretary Xi Jinping,and with confidence and courage,all the people of China have worked to overcome obstacles and have pressed
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文摘The Report on the work of government(2020)is an annually political discourse,which provides a consistent topic to linguistic research.And conceptual metaphor provided by George Lakoff,is an important part of cognitive linguistics and a way of discourse analysis.From the perspective of conceptual metaphor,this study explores proportion and distribution of conceptual metaphor used in the discourse,and analyzes the function of major metaphors.It is proved that there are totally 12 categories of metaphors,which are made up of 8 major metaphor and 4 minor metaphor.The major metaphors function hierarchically and reflect effect of epidemic represented in the discourse.By analyzing the conceptual metaphor in the discourse,it is expected to shade a light on the understanding of metaphor illustration of the discourse.
