| Since Chinese President Xi Jinping launched the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013,it has won numerous attention in China and abroad.The proposal of the Belt and Road Initiative aims to actively develop economic partnership with the countries along the border and jointly create a common destiny.The successful implementation of it is closely related to the accession and strong support of countries along the route.Because Thailand is an important part of the Silk Road Economic Belt,and also a necessary place for the maritime Silk Road.It is also an important partner of The Belt and Road Initiative,and occupies a very important position in the Belt and Road Initiative,therefore,it is worth our in-depth exploration.As a result,this paper takes the news related with the Belt and Road Initiative in Bangkok Post as the starting point of language,and takes the media’s attitude towards the Belt and Road Initiative as the research objective,and tries to analyze following questions.Firstly,What are the major news concerns of the Thai news media regarding the Belt and Road Initiative? Secondly,how did appraisal resources distribute in the Bangkok Post ? thirdly,what is the attitude of Bangkok Post to the Belt and Road Initiative?This thesis takes appraisal theory as theoretical framework,and makes a positive discourse analysis to news related with the Belt and Road Initiative in Bangkok post.In this thesis,the author randomly chose 64 English reports related with the Belt and Road Initiative as corpus to explore evaluation of Thailand English media’s towards the Belt and Road Initiative.The author finds that major concerns of news reports related to the Belt and Road Initiative in Bangkok Post include following aspects: the news describing the competition relationship between China and the EU,the news introducing the Belt and Road Initiative and its progress,the news expressing the appreciation to the Belt and Road Initiative or not,the news related to the One belt,One Road Summit,the news related to China’s economy,and so on.By analyzing the appraisal resources related to the Belt and Road Initiative,we find that the proportion of attitudinal appraisal resources is the highest.Among the attitudinal appraisal resources,positive attitudinal resources are higher than negative ones,and attitudinal resources of affect are used more frequently than appreciation and judgment attitudinal resources.Among the attitudinal resources of affect,[-security] emotion and [+satisfaction] are the most frequently used.Among the attitudinal resources of judgment,resources of social sanction are used more frequently than social esteem.Among the attitudinal resources of appreciation,[-reaction] and [+value] are the most frequently used.In appraisal resources of engagement,strategy of dialogic contraction is more frequently used than dialogic expansion.In the appraisal resources of gradation,strategies of force is higher than that of focus. |
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