Author(s)

Wenning Lai ¹, Hongqiang Liu ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Foreign Languages, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou, China

Corresponding Author

Wenning Lai

ABSTRACT

This paper investigates the construction of China's image in China's Green Development in the New Era based on the Indexicality Principle and the transitivity system of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). It finds that China is represented as an "active promoter, responsible actor, solid practitioner, and forward-thinker" through overt reference, implicatures and presuppositions, stance, and classic statements. The construction of China's image in the discourse is rooted in the profound traditional Chinese culture, closely connected with countries worldwide, and integrated into the Chinese proposal of building "a global community of shared future", demonstrating a broad vision that concerns the destiny of all humanity. This projected image permeates China's Green Development in the New Era and is in line with the national image established in China's history as well as the image to be shaped in the future.

KEYWORDS

China's image construction, indexicality principle, systemic functional linguistics, overt reference, implicatures and presuppositions, stance, classic statements

CITE THIS PAPER

Wenning Lai, Hongqiang Liu, An Analysis of China's Image Construction Based on the Indexicality Principle. Journal of Political Science Research (2023) Vol. 4: 55-61. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/DOI: 10.23977/polsr.2023.040207.

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