Discourse Analysis Of The White Paper On China’s Human Rights

This article finds the changes in the White Paper on Human Rrights from the perspective of discourse analysis. The study sample is the comprehensive White Paper On Human Rrights from 1991 to 2015.Through the analysis of words and grammar,this paper concludes the changes are happening resulting from the social causes and the ideology. Based on these changes,the paper points out the White Paper On Human Rights is important on the identity construction and the cause of human rights.The framework of the text is three-dimensional model, text analysis dimension, discourse and social practices.This model is invented by a famous British scholar, Fairclough, a critic.The article analyzes the White Paper On Human Rights from the aforementioned perspectives.This paper tries to reveal the unobtrusive information and ideology.The following is the main content of this essay:The introduction mainly introduces the background on the subject and the current research. Through the detailed analysis, the paper reveals the theme and clarifies the framework.The first chapter is a brief introduction about the discourse analysis theory. This section analyzes the White Paper on Human Rights under the Fairclough language analytical framework.The second chapter studies the White Pape5r on Human Rights for text analysis. To find the ideology behind the words,this part tries to summarize the rule of the changes through the vocabulary, grammar, the relevance and the text structure.The third chapter mainly analyzes the discourse practice of the White Paper on Human Rights. Discursive practice includes text production, distribution and consumption process, it is the analysis of the causes, how the text analysis is generated. Intertextuality is an important aspect of the analysis of discourse practice. This chapter provides an intertextual analysis for the generation, the content and the theme, to find the expression of the power behind the words.The fourth chapter focuses on the dimension of the social practice of the White Paper on Human Rights. Based on the aforementioned analysis, this part mainly explores the internal factors in the development of the White Paper on Human Rights.The epilogue points that it makes a great progress in the cause of human rights. But it is still far from the full protection of human rights. For example, how the new human rights ideology makes a progress in the culture clash between tradition and present, east and west, capitalism and socialism, how to fill the legislative gaps, how to solve the new social problems including pension and social security. These problems need to be properly resolved.