Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, 2024, 7(4); doi: 10.25236/AJHSS.2024.070418.
Qianxi Li1, Ying Lin2
1School of Foreign Languages, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
2School of Foreign Languages, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
In recent years, China's auto industry has become increasingly influential around the world. Given that science and technology news constructs social and political reality, this study investigates the construction of China's national identity shaped by news reports on Chinese automobile in China Daily and The New York Times. Two corpora of news on Chinese automobile in 2023 from the two media have been analyzed under the guidance of pragmatic identity theory. The results show that the two media both have generally constructed China's increasingly powerful identity, but New York Times mainly construct China's image as aggressive, invading and destructive when China Daily mainly portray China as responsible great power which is environmental-friendly, innovative and open.
National identity; Pragmatic identity; Chinese Automobile; Comparative analysis; Corpus study
Qianxi Li, Ying Lin. A Comparative Study on the Construction of China’s National Identity in Reports on Chinese Automobile. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2024) Vol. 7, Issue 4: 114-120. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2024.070418.
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