A corpus-based analysis of the stylistic features of Chinese and American diplomatic discourse
The study investigates the linguistic aspects of Chinese and American diplomatic discourse using Biber’s theoretical underpinnings of multi-dimensional (MD) analysis. The corpus of the study comprises texts taken from the official websites of the Chinese and US governments from 2011 to 2020. The stu...
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| description | The study investigates the linguistic aspects of Chinese and American diplomatic discourse using Biber’s theoretical underpinnings of multi-dimensional (MD) analysis. The corpus of the study comprises texts taken from the official websites of the Chinese and US governments from 2011 to 2020. The study results show that China’s diplomatic discourse falls into the text type of learned exposition which includes informational expositions focused on conveying information. In contrast, the United States diplomatic discourse falls into the text type of “involved persuasion,” which is persuasive and argumentative. Furthermore, the two-way ANOVA test reveals few distinctions between spoken and written diplomatic discourse from the same country. Furthermore, T-tests demonstrate that the diplomatic discourse of the two countries differs significantly in three dimensions. In addition, the study highlights that China’s diplomatic discourse is informationally dense and context independent. In contrast, the United States diplomatic discourse is emotive and interactional, strongly dependent on context, and created within time restrictions. Finally, the study’s findings contribute to a systematic knowledge of the genre aspects of diplomatic discourse and are helpful for more effective diplomatic discourse system creation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b8a4ee5abf49421db3dcdf7dc749883f2023-02-14T19:05:32ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782023-02-011410.3389/fpsyg.2023.11226751122675A corpus-based analysis of the stylistic features of Chinese and American diplomatic discourseChenxia Zhang0Muhammad Afzaal1Abdulfattah Omar2Abdulfattah Omar3Waheed M. A. Altohami4Waheed M. A. Altohami5School of Languages, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, Shanghai, ChinaInstitute of Corpus Studies and Applications, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, ChinaDepartment of English, College of Science & Humanities, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj, Saudi ArabiaFaculty of Arts, Port Said University, Port Said, EgyptDepartment of English, College of Science & Humanities, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj, Saudi ArabiaDepartment of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Education, Mansoura University, Mansoura, EgyptThe study investigates the linguistic aspects of Chinese and American diplomatic discourse using Biber’s theoretical underpinnings of multi-dimensional (MD) analysis. The corpus of the study comprises texts taken from the official websites of the Chinese and US governments from 2011 to 2020. The study results show that China’s diplomatic discourse falls into the text type of learned exposition which includes informational expositions focused on conveying information. In contrast, the United States diplomatic discourse falls into the text type of “involved persuasion,” which is persuasive and argumentative. Furthermore, the two-way ANOVA test reveals few distinctions between spoken and written diplomatic discourse from the same country. Furthermore, T-tests demonstrate that the diplomatic discourse of the two countries differs significantly in three dimensions. In addition, the study highlights that China’s diplomatic discourse is informationally dense and context independent. In contrast, the United States diplomatic discourse is emotive and interactional, strongly dependent on context, and created within time restrictions. Finally, the study’s findings contribute to a systematic knowledge of the genre aspects of diplomatic discourse and are helpful for more effective diplomatic discourse system creation.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1122675/fullmulti-dimensional analysisdiplomatic discoursestylistic featurescorpus studiesChina and the United States |
| spellingShingle | Chenxia Zhang Muhammad Afzaal Abdulfattah Omar Abdulfattah Omar Waheed M. A. Altohami Waheed M. A. Altohami A corpus-based analysis of the stylistic features of Chinese and American diplomatic discourse Frontiers in Psychology multi-dimensional analysis diplomatic discourse stylistic features corpus studies China and the United States |
| title | A corpus-based analysis of the stylistic features of Chinese and American diplomatic discourse |
| title_full | A corpus-based analysis of the stylistic features of Chinese and American diplomatic discourse |
| title_fullStr | A corpus-based analysis of the stylistic features of Chinese and American diplomatic discourse |
| title_full_unstemmed | A corpus-based analysis of the stylistic features of Chinese and American diplomatic discourse |
| title_short | A corpus-based analysis of the stylistic features of Chinese and American diplomatic discourse |
| title_sort | corpus based analysis of the stylistic features of chinese and american diplomatic discourse |
| topic | multi-dimensional analysis diplomatic discourse stylistic features corpus studies China and the United States |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1122675/full |
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