TITLE:
Research Proposal of a Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis of British and American Mainstream Media on “The Belt and Road Initiative”
AUTHORS:
Wang Li
KEYWORDS:
The Belt, Road, Initiative
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.9 No.2,
February
26,
2021
ABSTRACT: “The
Belt and Road Initiative” is a new form of international cooperation proposed
by China in the new world situation and pattern. This paper intends to build a
corpus based on the news reports of “The Belt and Road Initiative” by British
and American mainstream media as a research platform, and analyze the attitudes
of the two countries based on the research methods of corpus linguistics and
the theory of critical discourse analysis, so as
to dig out the hidden political intention behind it.