A Study on Language Conversion and Construction of Discourse Power in Chinese Diplomacy

Abstract

In the background of globalization, some countries take advantage of the media to send out inaccurate reports in order to promote their political ideology. In this context, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs plays a key role in shaping China's international image through diplomatic means. Based on the critical discourse analysis framework proposed by Fairclough, this study analyzed the international news reports at home and abroad in the past five years. The author found that China's diplomatic response broke the inaccurate understanding of the image of China carried in the question of the reporters from foreign news agencies. The diplomatic response reflected the stance and attitude of the Chinese government and enhanced the power of discourse through the lexical strategy and syntactic strategy.