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Home> Archive> 2024> Volume 14, Number 4, 2024
IJSSH 2024 Vol.14(4): 193-200
doi: 10.18178/ijssh.2024.14.4.1214

Critical Discourse Analysis of Japanese Mainstream Media Reports on China’s Aid to Africa: Based on Corpus Data

Bangni Chen
University of International Relations, Beijing, China
Email: bangni_chen@126.com

Manuscript received April 25, 2024; revised May 30, 2024; accepted July 2, 2024; published August 29, 2024.

Abstract—This paper conducts a comprehensive quantitative and qualitative analysis of coverage on China’s aid to Africa by the mainstream Japanese media, Asahi Shimbun, using corpus linguistics and Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis model. The study collected relevant news articles from Asahi Shimbun published between 1984 and 2023. Using the timeline of the coverage as a framework, it carried out statistical analyses, including word frequency analysis, co-occurrence analysis, and correlation analysis, accompanied by visualization techniques. By integrating historical context, the study explores the linguistic features and evolving focal points across different periods of reporting. Through analyzing word frequency, keyword indexing, collocations, and grammatical structures, the study reveals the underlying meaning of the discourse, exposing Japan’s ideology and discourse power structure within the media’s narrative. This research offers new perspectives and methodologies for exploring the interplay between media, international relations, and development aid.

Keywords—corpus, KH coder, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Fairclough

Cite: Bangni Chen, "Critical Discourse Analysis of Japanese Mainstream Media Reports on China’s Aid to Africa: Based on Corpus Data," International Journal of Social Science and Humanity, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 193-200, 2024.

Copyright © 2024 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).
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