Means of “Delegitimisation” of the Topic “Xinjiang Cotton” in the Media Discourse of the Russian Mass Media: A Discourse-Historical Analysis
Tao Yuan, Lyu Yujing
Southeast University
The People’s Republic of China
Submitted: 16.09.2022
Abstract. The study aims to identify the means of “delegitimisation” of the topic “Xinjiang Cotton” based on a corpus of texts of the Russian mass media within the framework of the discourse-historical approach. Scientific novelty of the study lies in the ways of using the data of a linguistic corpus in the discourse analysis and in revealing the socio-political reality constructed on the topic “Xinjiang Cotton” in the media discourse of the Russian mass media within the framework of the discourse-historical approach. On the basis of the 59 media texts selected, a linguistic corpus is created, the discourse topic and discursive strategies (the nomination strategy, the predication strategy, the argumentation strategy and the perspectivisation strategy) reflecting the implicit attitudes of the discourse subject are analysed in a comprehensive manner. As a result of the analysis of the media discourse, it has been found that the positive characteristic of the Chinese side and the negative representation of the American side are formed in relation to the “cotton war”. The goal of the discursive construction of “delegitimisation” of the cotton issue in Xinjiang is achieved in the implementation of the discursive strategies using emotional-evaluative vocabulary, the topoi of uselessness and reality, as well as the tone of quotations.
Key words and phrases: дискурсивные стратегии, делегитимация, медиадискурс, дискурсивно-исторический анализ, лингвистический корпус, discursive strategies, delegitimisation, media discourse, discourse-historical analysis, linguistic corpus
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