Building a global community of health for all: A positive discourse analysis of COVID-19 discourse

IF 2.1 2区 文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION Discourse & Communication Pub Date : 2023-03-27 DOI:10.1177/17504813231163078
Tayden Fung Chan, Yating Yu
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‘A global community of health for all’ has become a dominant concept in China’s global health governance system. Although this concept has been investigated by several studies in different domains, little attention has been given to its discursive legitimation in China’s media communication from a linguistic perspective. To fill this gap, the present study employs positive discourse analysis to investigate how the aforementioned concept is legitimised via the predominant discourses associated with COVID-19 in state-run Chinese English-language newspapers. The findings show that the Chinese news media attempted to formulate the positive discourses, including cooperation as a win-win solution, people’s lives and well-being as the priority and science as the spirit, though the discourses may not resonate with some countries. The findings shed light on the use of language by the media in promoting official ideologies, projecting China’s national image and improving China’s international relations amid a global health crisis.
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构建全球全民健康共同体:新冠肺炎话语的实证话语分析
“人人享有卫生健康的全球共同体”已成为中国全球卫生治理体系的主导理念。虽然这一概念已经在不同的领域得到了研究,但从语言学的角度来看,它在中国媒体传播中的话语合法性却很少受到关注。为了填补这一空白,本研究采用积极话语分析来调查上述概念是如何通过与COVID-19相关的主要话语在中国官方英语报纸上合法化的。研究结果表明,中国新闻媒体试图形成积极的话语,包括合作共赢、以人民的生命和福祉为优先、以科学为精神,尽管这些话语可能不会在一些国家产生共鸣。这些发现揭示了媒体在宣传官方意识形态、展示中国国家形象以及在全球卫生危机中改善中国国际关系方面使用语言的问题。
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Discourse & Communication
Discourse & Communication COMMUNICATION-
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期刊介绍: Discourse & Communication is an international, peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles that pay specific attention to the qualitative, discourse analytical approach to issues in communication research. Besides the classical social scientific methods in communication research, such as content analysis and frame analysis, a more explicit study of the structures of discourse (text, talk, images or multimedia messages) allows unprecedented empirical insights into the many phenomena of communication. Since contemporary discourse study is not limited to the account of "texts" or "conversation" alone, but has extended its field to the study of the cognitive, interactional, social, cultural.
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