Using Computer-Assisted Approach to Media Discourse Analysis on the Construction of City Image: Chengdu Park City as an Example

Jing Liu

2022

Abstract

This study uses a computer-assisted corpus linguistic approach to analyzing news media coverage of Chengdu Park City for international communication. With a dataset of 60,080 word tokens of foreign-oriented news articles on the Park City of Chengdu, the study demonstrates how embedded computational techniques in corpus linguistic software can aid the quantitative analysis with reference to collocations, frequency and keyness, as well as qualitative analysis based on concordance lines and lexical networks. Taking Chengdu as an example, this study suggests a framework for adopting computer-powered statistical measures in analyzing the discursive construction of a city’s image by pinpointing linguistic patterns of datasets, mainly in terms of collocations, frequencies, key clusters as well as their diachronic development.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Liu J. (2022). Using Computer-Assisted Approach to Media Discourse Analysis on the Construction of City Image: Chengdu Park City as an Example. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on New Media Development and Modernized Education - Volume 1: NMDME; ISBN 978-989-758-630-9, SciTePress, pages 208-214. DOI: 10.5220/0011909200003613

in Bibtex Style

@conference{nmdme22,
author={Jing Liu},
title={Using Computer-Assisted Approach to Media Discourse Analysis on the Construction of City Image: Chengdu Park City as an Example},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on New Media Development and Modernized Education - Volume 1: NMDME},
year={2022},
pages={208-214},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011909200003613},
isbn={978-989-758-630-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on New Media Development and Modernized Education - Volume 1: NMDME
TI - Using Computer-Assisted Approach to Media Discourse Analysis on the Construction of City Image: Chengdu Park City as an Example
SN - 978-989-758-630-9
AU - Liu J.
PY - 2022
SP - 208
EP - 214
DO - 10.5220/0011909200003613
PB - SciTePress