Corpus-driven Analysis on Chinese Image in APEC -- Speeches at Economic Leaders’ Meetings

This paper conducts an analysis of Chinese image construction. Under the circumstance of Corpus controlled, two research questions are proposed. For the first question of linguistic features, the paper utilizes the keywords and the diachronic N-grams analyses respectively to find that three groups of Lemmas and four key diachronic headwords. For the last question, according to semantic prosody of Concordance analysis, the images are constructed by the economic vigorousness, the environmental friendliness, and an abided role in APEC rules.