The Global Times Editorial Nationalist Discourse Analysis

In the past nearly 20 years, from the “The Olympic Bid” to “Impact of China and the United States”, from beijingers in New York hit to the publication of China can say no, a discourse, the undercurrent of nationalism in the narrative of Chinese media daily quietly flowing. As China’s social transition of various ideological convergence, collision and conflict of important field, medium of the masses to participate in the national community experience of time and space reconstruction and interpretation, and through to the various symbolic resources selection, arrangement, paints, abstraction and institutionalized, and formed a series of different values, ideas, beliefs and interests demands of nationalist discourse.In this paper, the global time editorial as the examples, from March 25, 2009-December 31, 2014, the global times, by means of stratified sampling investigation, so as to study the global times in an editorial whether there is the tendency of nationalist discourse.Through to the selected 477 editorial as sample, from the selected topic attributes, comment object, reviews three categories hands, after the analysis of the contents, the following conclusions can be found: the nationalist discourse in media coverage is mainly manifested through political nationalism; In an editorial more by blaming others and praise their feelings to reveal nationalist discourse; In relations with other countries or his nation, in an editorial, the more emphasis on china-us relations; In an editorial on the way, tend to use implicative, cryptic comment.Finally, the system of political propaganda, the commercialization of the media, the issue of media Settings and the global times editorial team factors four aspects carries on the analysis, the global times editorial nationalist discourse is constructed behind framework factors play a role. In addition, from the perspective of journalistic professionalism in the global times editorial tendency of nationalist discourse, this paper expounds the current Chinese nationalist discourse construction and the conflict between journalistic professionalism.