Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies ›› 2022, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (6): 95-105.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2022.06.012

• Articles • Previous Articles     Next Articles

Constructing Deontic Stance in Chinese White Papers on China-US Trade Disputes

ZHUO Li(), YOU Zeshun()   

  • Online:2022-12-28 Published:2022-12-02

Abstract:

This paper, by selecting as analytical data the two White Papers on China-US Trade Disputes issued by State Council of the People’s Republic of China in 2018 and 2019, aims to reveal the meta-pragmatic resources and strategies used to construct the deontic stance positions and evaluations of China and US and their (dis) alignments. It’s found that assertives work as the main pragmatic resources of the Chinese deontic stance construction, followed by the directives and the commissives; the obstacle China needs to cross over lies in how to make understood to the US the official pragmatic habits formed in China’s long cultural and historical development.

Key words: National discourse, deontic stance, meta-pragmatic analysis, White Papers

CLC Number: