Discursive Construction of Fuzhou City Image Under the Circumstances of International Communication:Taking News Reports Covering the 13th Five Year Plan in China Daily as an Example
This paper studies Fuzhou city image constructed in the media discourse from subjects,contents and forms and its interna-tional promotion.The data were news reports on Fuzhou in China Daily(English version)covering the phase of China's 13th Five Year Plan,that is from January 1,2016 to December 31,2020.The results show that sample reports generally portrays a positive Fuzhou city image,whose cultural image has been mostly reported in terms of contents.Besides,compared with previous studies,sample reports con-vey more voices of ordinary citizens and adopt more figure reports,which tends to tell stories of Fuzhou,and even stories of China more effectively to international readers.This study may be practically helpful for discursive construction and international communication of city image.
city image constructioninternational promotiondiscursive discoursecultural discourse studiesmedia discourseChina Daily