Abstract

Based on the Xi Jinping’s discourse of ecological civilization construction published on the platform of“Xuexiqiangguo”, this paper uses UAM Corpus Tool 3.3 annotation software to manually annotate the corpus according to the classification criteria of affect resources in Martin & White appraisal theory. Statistical analysis of the overall distribution of affect resources and the distribution characteristics of various types of affect resources, and then explore the expression of the meaning of affect resources. The study found that Xi Jinping’s discourse of ecological civilization construction contains rich affect resources and give priority to with positive emotions. The frequency of use of various affect resources varies greatly, among which the inclination resources are the most prominent. The integrated use of all kinds of affect resources reflects China’s unremitting efforts in building an ecological civilization, conveys the idea that China’s ecological civilization construction should resonate with economic development in the same frequency, and shows to the world China’s stance on building a community of life for man and nature, and demonstrates the image of a major country as a responsible and courageous nation.

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