New Trend, but Old Story: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study of Tibet Imaginations in Anglo-American Newspapers

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Abstract

This paper provides a corpus-assisted discourse study of the representations of Tibet in five influential Anglo-American newspapers from 2000 to 2015. The findings suggest that while representations of Tibet revolved predominantly around political, religious and cultural discourses, they have become increasingly politicized since 2008. Driven by both politics and myths, Tibet was either constructed as a land under the “totalitarian rule” of the Chinese government or “objects of gaze” with its mythical and exotic religious practices and cultural arts. This was further reinforced by the negative representations of the Chinese Communist Party as “totalitarian”, “repressive” and “atheist” and the positive representations of the Dalai Lama as a “spiritual leader” and “peace lover”.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-14
JournalCritical Arts
Volume33
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 16 Apr 2019
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Tibet
  • corpus-assisted discourse study
  • critical discourse analysis
  • news
  • corpus linguistics

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