A Study on the Regional Image of Inner Mongolia Based on NOW Corpus—Taking Ordos City as an Example
The study is based on the appraisal theory from Systemic Functional Linguistics(SFL),aiming to extract data such as the number of news reports,high-frequency words,and key words from the NOW corpus on Ordos City,and to analyze the discourse of Eng-lish media from different countries.The study explores the themes and attitudes of the news reports to analyze the changes in the city image of Ordos.The results show that Western news media's reports on Ordos have undergone a shift in themes and attitudes,from initially focu-sing on urban planning issues,concerns about the imbalance between economic development and environmental protection,questioning the imbalance of industrial structure,to focusing more on industrial transformation and innovation,environmental governance,and ecological protection,paying more attention to the development and transformation of Ordos.