A Study On Discourse Practice And Innovation Of Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson

With the new world pattern that the overall strength of East Asian Countries is gradually rising,China actively participated in the discussion of international issues and undertaken more responsibilities progressively.Since the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China,Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson have made remarkable achievements in their discourse practice.Based on case analysis,content analysis and discourse analysis,this study carries out research on the institutional evolution and role transformation of Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson as well as their discourse practice since the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China,and puts forward constructive countermeasures.The mainly conclusion of the study include the following aspects.First,since 1983,under the dual influence of political logic and media logic,Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson started from the establishment of the system,and gradually displayed personal charm in the development process,constantly enriched the connotation of his role,and became more and more closely connected with the society.Secondly,the comparison between 2012-2016 and 2017-2021 shows that the overall transformation of the discourse practice of Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson since the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is mainly from the aspects of text production,space production and relationship production.At the perspective of text,Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson had more informative statements,more clear attitudes,more figurative rhetoric discourse and more proactive agenda setting.The space production was reconstructing from "front stage-back stage" to "front stage-middle region-back stage".Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson formed an interactive relationship with mainstream media,foreign media,think tanks,fans and the public,which jointly constructed a communication network.On this basis,taking the discourse of Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson during the period COVID-19 as an instance,this study comprehensively explored the effect of Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson’s discourse about major international agenda at regular press conference and foreign social media such as Twitter.Finally,Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson can improve multimodal discourse,explore diversified space,deepen the nodes effect in order to realize the innovation in the text production,space production and relationship production,promoting international communication influence.