The transitive construction of China’s national image in the editorials of the New York Times

• Main Authors: Dai, Xinyang, Hassan, Hanita
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Academy Publication 2023
• Subjects: L Education (General); P Philology. Linguistics
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/107426/1/HanitaHassan2023_TheTransitiveConstructionofChinasNational.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/107426/; http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1312.16
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

The construction of a country’s national image depends not only on its promotion and construction in media but also on other countries’ reports on and comments about it, especially when they are in conflicting states. Taking the transitivity system theory within systemic functional linguistics as it...