Analysis of the U.S.AI Policymaking Community's Discourse on China from the Perspective of Fairclough's Three-Dimensional Model
[Research purpose]The U.S.AI policymaking community is pushing for legislation in the field of artificial intelligence in the United States.Analyzing the U.S.AI policymaking community's discourse on China is conducive to revealing the ideology and power re-lations in the discourse.[Research method]Based on the framework of Fairclough's three-dimensional model,this paper uses both liter-ature analysis and corpus linguistics to analyze the discourse from the perspective of critical discourse.[Research conclusion]The re-search shows that the U.S.AI policymaking community views China as the main opponent and top threat to the development of U.S.arti-ficial intelligence.Textual analysis suggests it constructs a threatening image of China to the development of U.S.artificial intelligence both through using negative value-expressive vocabulary and juxtaposing China with Russia at the lexical level,and employing metaphors and setting up participants and environment in the process of transitivity at the grammatical level.In terms of discursive practice,it im-plants negative perceptions of China through discourse presuppositions,and forms a communicative chain with extra-vocalisation through discourse descriptions to serve its own policy proposal argumentation.From the perspective of social practice,the U.S.AI policymaking community's discourse on China is influenced by government policies,"China-threat"narrative and technological hegemonic mindset.
Americaartificial intelligenceartificial intelligence communityChina-related discoursediscourse analysisFairclough's three-dimensional model
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