Author(s)

YuTing Chen^*, Fei Deng

Affiliation(s)

School of Foreign Studies, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, Guangdong, China. 

Corresponding Author

YuTing Chen

ABSTRACT

As an international first-tier city, Guangzhou’s development and image have attracted much attention at home and abroad. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 in 2020, Guangzhou’s international image has undergone further updates and changes. This paper collects relevant media materials in mainstream media at home and abroad by forming two corpora at home and abroad, from the perspective of “self-shaping” and “other shaping” combined with Sinclair’s lexical grammar theory and critical discourse analysis, to compare the changes in the international image of Guangzhou before and after the epidemic. The study shows that Guangzhou’s media prefer to focus on the analysis of government policies and hope to create an international image of orderly development; Foreign media have a more multi-angle and objective description of Guangzhou’s image.

KEYWORDS

Guangzhou; Corpus; Critical discourse analysis; Sinclair lexical grammar theory

CITE THIS PAPER

YuTing Chen, Fei Deng. A corpus-based comparative analysis of Guangzhou’s international image in local and foreign mainstream media discourse. World Journal of Educational Studies. 2025, 3(6): 39-45. DOI: https://doi.org/10.61784/wjes3088.

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