A Disourse Analysis Of Reports About "Chinese Dream" In People’s Daily Overseas Edition

Since the Xi jinping publicly for the first time to mention the word “Chinese dream”, as for overseas Chinese, Chinese Hong Kong, Chinese Macao and Chinese Taiwan compatriots, overseas Chinese students and staff to the spread of foreign official mainstream media in China,People’s Daily overseas edition take a lot of reports about “Chinese dream”. The study to People’s Daily overseas edition of Chinese the “Chinese dream” reports content as the research sample,by the Teun A.Van Dijk about news text discourse analysis method,analysis of news discourse at all levels of text structure, language style, rhetorical devices used and the meaning of news discourse about “Chinese Dream”.On the basic situation in these reports, People’s Daily overseas edition in 2013 to 2015, the number of “Chinese dream” reports every year has been different, and the number of reported overall showed a trend of gradual decline. Although these reports have appeared in the layout, but mainly appeared in the first eight pages, and front-page space most. Reported range covers issues of politics, economy and science-education-culture-health, military, sports, international, and other fields, but the emphasis on the science-education-culture-health, social and political this three areas. In the subjects of report,“in all areas or individual practice the Chinese dream” is the most, “activity or meeting on the Chinese dream” and “Chinese dream interpretation” also accounted for a large proportion. On the news genre, give priority to with communication coverage, news reports and news comment. On the choice of news sources, give priority to with our correspondent reports,at the same time, through interviews, manuscripts and other media reprinted diversity presents the form of various ideas about the “Chinese dream”.In the text structure of the “Chinese dream” reports, news schema structure generally includes the background, major events, and the evaluation of the four aspects of content,but in different reports not all of the content of the text structure contains the above four content, the background in most of the reports have appeared,and on the order of the content and the structure is different.In the macro and micro semantic structure, the “Chinese dream” reports on the whole, according to the structure of “total- points”.In macro semantic structure, the theme of the text is divided into different macro themes, reports of the overall text presents a layered structure step by step,and with the content of the news schema structure showed a high degree of consistency.In micro semantic structure, each report contains at least two and above proposition,and not only has the multiple proposition, also contains numerous proposition group.So, the semantic structure of macro and micro level is rich, diverse types.In addition, the People’s Daily overseas edition of the “Chinese dream” reports presented the diverse discourse style,in different subjects reported the manifestation of discourse style and there are differences, among them, the popular style is the most common. Meanwhile, reports also use a lot of rhetorical devices, such as alliteration, metaphor, quote, rhetorical questions and rhetorical question and so on,these rhetoric devices increased the momentum of discourse expression, makes the “Chinese dream” more visualization, the attraction of the “Chinese dream” and credibility are also highlighte, not only enrich the expression of the “Chinese dream”, but also improve the effect of the realization of the audience to persuade.Through the news discourse expression, the People’s Daily overseas edition gives the “Chinese dream” a lot of special significance. Through in the report quoted a large number of Chinese historical material and direct reports related to the “Chinese dream” of historical issues, to construct the meaning of “Chinese dream comes from the history of China”, and explains the relationship between the “Chinese dream” and the history of China.In the report frequent use of “people” and “the people” as keywords,and reported by many personal dream story,to construct the meaning of “national dream and personal is blend”,explains the relationship between the national dreams and personal dreams is “sometimes-complex mix-and-match, I have you”.In addition, such as the “American dream”, the “African dream”, “China- France dream” appear in many reports in the news headlines and text,news content explains the relationship between “Chinese dream” and the countries all over the world,to construct the “Chinese dream is linked to the dream world”, and further discusses the implementation of the “Chinese dream” of important meaning for promoting world peace.Through the expression of news discourse,“Chinese dream” from an abstract and conceptual vocabulary has become a connotation is rich and has great significance to Chinese words,and in the collective words and individuality discourse has made important breakthroughs in mutual fusion.On this basis, the People’s Daily overseas edition of the “Chinese dream” reports the realization of the “Chinese dream” to build a good international environment of public opinion.People’s Daily overseas edition play an important role in providing audiences with social consensus, and concentrate the power of overseas Chinese to make Chinese dream come true.