| In recent years,with the rapid development of science and technology,telecommunications industry has been highly valued by many countries.In 2019,Huawei Technologies Co.Ltd(Huawei),a Chinese private enterprise,kicked off 5G technology,launching a new round of mobile communication revolution.However,the US government announces that Huawei’s products and its 5G technology pose a threat to US national security.In May 2019,the US government officially added Huawei to the Entity List,prohibiting American companies from selling related technology or products to Huawei.As for this,Huawei has strongly refuted the US accusations in many news interviews.Huawei event,which refers to the US allegations and sanctions against Huawei as well as Huawei’s confrontation,has become the focus of wide concern all around the world.With Huawei’s voice heard and the event developing,Huawei has gradually won public support and international recognition.To better understand Huawei event and Huawei’s stance,this thesis takes the sub-system of Appraisal Theory—Engagement System as the theoretical framework,taking fifty-three news interviews related to Huawei event from Huawei’s official Xinsheng Community from January 1 to September 30,2019 as the corpus,to study how Huawei speakers use heteroglossic Engagement resources to take their positions and voice their views effectively to realize communicative purposes.This study is carried out by both quantitative and qualitative methods.First of all,Engagement resources in the corpus are annotated,categorized and then calculated with the aid of software UAM Corpus Tool.Further,the distribution and frequency of the heteroglossic Engagement resources are analyzed.To have a thorough comprehension of Engagement resources used in Huawei corpus,the corpus is divided into two categories with six topics.Category one is about Huawei’s response to Trump administration’s accusations,including cyber security risk,backdoor and intellectual property.Category two concerns the impact of the US sanctions on Huawei,involving the Entity List,geopolitics and Sino-US trade war.Through analysis and discussion,it is found that Contract resources are preferred over Expand resources by Huawei speakers,especially Disclaim-type with the highest proportion helping the speakers defend the company’s stance.Also,various Engagement resources used in different topics reflect Huawei’s flexible strategies.As for qualitative study,some examples are selected and studied to illustrate how each Engagement type functions in specific contexts to negotiate with listeners to achieve corresponding interpersonal meaning.In addition,combining the statistical results and case analysis,the thesis summarizes five striking features of Engagement resource used in Huawei corpus: 1)A lot of Disclaim resources are employed to take a stance against the US government’s accusations and boost Huawei’s public image.2)Pronounce is used to strengthen self-value and promote the company’s publicity.3)Endorse resources are well adopted to win over public support through reasoning and facts.4)Numerous Entertain resources are employed to open up dialogue space and guide the audience to think logically and critically.5)Distance is used as little as possible to avoid irresponsible statements.This thesis explores the use of Engagement resources in Huawei news interviews under the guidance of Engagement System.It is hoped to deepen public understanding of Huawei event and Huawei’s stance,and help the public or enterprises learn how to better express their views with Engagement resources.Also,the thesis is expected to offer reference to the study of hot social issues from functional linguistic view. |
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