Transitivity System And China Image

Chinese Dream,as a concise language symbol for the construction of China Image in the news discourses of the West and China,has exerted a wide range of influence around the world.Chinese Dream discourses have become an important means of constructing the China Image in the global perspective.Chinese Dream is also the core form of the Chinese diplomatic discourse and the construction of the Chinese national identity,which has aroused widespread concerns on the Chinese Dream discourse,including linguistic studies.The related studies are more concerned with the construction of ideology and macro-discoursive,but less the combination of micro-linguistic facts and macro-discoursive construction.Based on this,this thesis uses the corpus paradigm to analyze the construction of China Image in Chinese Dream news discourses of the West and China from the perspective of transitivity system,and a contrastive analysis is conducted to cast light on the similarity and difference of micro-linguistic facts and macro-discoursive construction in Chinese Dream news discourses of the West and China.The transitivity system as a semantic system is the representation of the experiential function in the conceptual meta-function proposed by Halliday(1967,1968),the founder of Systemic Functional Linguistics(SFL).Halliday points out that the definition of the transitivity system is based on the clauses in the paradigmatic relationship and syntagmatic relationship.He(2004:107)argues that the transitivity system to understand the experience,should establish a process-centered theoretical framework,which contains three kinds of physical properties: process,participant,circumstance.In this study,the transitivity system provides an important basis for semantic representation in the study of China Image construction,and enhances the rationality of image construction.Because of the commonality of SFL and corpus linguistics in language system,functional selection and language probability,this thesis applies corpus method to macro-discoursive construction and explores the connotation of Chinese image with new vision.The texts on Chinese Dream for study are selected from mainstream media ofthe West and China,with Chinese/China Dream/dream as the key words for the collection.The whole selected texts are all editorials and commentaries about Chinese Dream,whose lengths are similar to each other.Foreign texts are mainly from mainstream media with international influence,such as The Wall Street Journal,The Economist,Financial Times,The New York Times.Domestic reports mainly from Xinhua News Agency,China Daily,Beijing Review,and China Today.Text finisher,Editplus 3.0,Tokenizer,Tree Tagger 3.0,and UAM Corpus tool 3.3 are used to clean,segment,tag and create the Chinese Dream Western News Corpus(CDWNC)project and Chinese Dream China's News Corpus(CDCNC)project.The realizations and distributions of processes,participants and circumstantial elements in the CDWNC and CDCNC will be first extracted to explore the difference between them.The three main components are composed of the three sub-corpora,and Antconc3.2.3,BSFU Collocator 1.0,KAT Tool and Colligator 2.0 are used to carry out the statistics of their keywords,collocations,high frequency words or phrases,and related colligations,which aims to explore the realizing means of Chinese Dream news discourses.It has been found that there are greatly significant differences in the usage of Material process,Existential process and the attributive type of Relational process in the CDWNC and CDCNC(P<0.01).There are greatly significant differences in the usage of global Material participants(especially goals and recipients),the global Mental participants,Verbal participants and the Existent in the CDWNC and CDCNC(P<0.01).there are greatly significant differences in the usage of general Manner circumstances,Degree,Reason,general Contingency circumstances,Condition,Concession,Comitatives,Additives,and Time in the CDWNC and CDCNC(P<0.01).The micro-linguistic facts are often manifested by word,group/phrase,clause,which are often generated by its upper rank: semantic form and lexical grammar.In the study of the discourses,the context is around China,Chinese Dream and world to establish the theme of the Chinese Dream context;semantic forms are determined by collocation,semantic preference and colligator;lexical grammar is determined by the Process,Participant,and Circumstance in the transitivity system.Therefore,the thematic context of Chinese Dream,the language semantic forms of Chinese Dream and the transitivity system develop the micro-linguistic facts of China Image.This thesis studies the analyzing mode of the combination of the micro-linguistic facts of Chinese Dream news discourses and the macro-discoursive construction of China Image in path of transitivity system.It is of great theoretical and practical significance to combine corpus,SFL,micro-linguistic facts and macro-discoursive construction.The present research develops the way of China Image construction in SFL through a corpus-based method,and provides a new linguistic perspective for the China Image construction.