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.

Highlights

  • Open AccessChina Daily reported, “Chairman Xi Jinping proposed the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013

  • 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

  • The mainstream media recognized by the public are four major news agencies: Associated Press (AP), United Press International (UPI), Agence France Press (AFP), Reuters Ltd. (Reuter)

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Introduction

China Daily reported, “Chairman Xi Jinping proposed the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013. The mainstream media recognized by the public are four major news agencies: Associated Press (AP), United Press International (UPI), Agence France Press (AFP), Reuters Ltd. This paper studies the dissemination and reception of “the Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI), a political term with Chinese characteristics, in mainstream media in Britain and the United States. It aims to the purpose to publicize “The Belt and Road Initiative” in various ways and promote the rational and objective understanding of China’s promotion and development of the Belt and Road Initiative in the west country. This study will answer the following three questions: 1) What are the trends and characteristics of the English translation of “The Belt and Road Initiative” in mainstream media and news reports in the UK and the US? This study will answer the following three questions: 1) What are the trends and characteristics of the English translation of “The Belt and Road Initiative” in mainstream media and news reports in the UK and the US? 2) What is the attitude of the mainstream media in the United Kingdom and the United States towards the “The Belt and Road Initiative”? 3) How do the mainstream media in the UK and the US understand the meaning of “The Belt and Road Initiative”?

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