News media representation of China’s family planning policy in China daily: a corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis
China has implemented the universal two-child policy and three-child policy in response to the demographic challenges brought about by the aging population and low fertility rate. The implementation of these policies relies on the support of various societal subsystems, with newspapers playing...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2025
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/26273/1/Gema_Online_25_3_2.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/26273/ https://ejournal.ukm.my/gema/issue/view/1852 |
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| Summary: | China has implemented the universal two-child policy and three-child policy in response to the
demographic challenges brought about by the aging population and low fertility rate. The
implementation of these policies relies on the support of various societal subsystems, with
newspapers playing a significant role in their publicity and interpretation. However, little attention
has been paid to how these policies are linguistically represented in Chinese English-language
newspapers. Therefore, the present study intends to conduct a corpus-assisted critical discourse
analysis by identifying the topics surrounding the news articles and unveiling the ideological
implications embedded in the news articles. 1520 news articles from China Daily, the official
English-language newspaper in China, were collected and analyzed through keyword analysis and
concordance analysis. The findings reveal that three topics exist in the news articles, with social
& economic matters ranking first, followed by national/regional entity and social identity. It is
also found that three ideologies, including collectivism, gender-essentialism and economic
development centered ideology are manifested in the coverage of China’s family planning policy.
This study sheds light on the ideological underpinnings on the reportage of the policies and how
these policies are represented to address the population issues, revealing how language used in
newspapers facilitates the promotion of national policies and reinforcement of official ideologies
through topic selection and presentation. |
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