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Title: A STUDY OF XI JINPING’S SPEECHES BASED ON THEMATIC PROGRESSION PATTERN - TAKE KEYNOTE SPEECHES AT THE BELT AND ROAD FORUM FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION FOR EXAMPLE
Authors: Wang Yumeng
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Wang Yumeng School of Foreign Studies, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China
MLA 8 Yumeng, Wang. "A STUDY OF XI JINPING’S SPEECHES BASED ON THEMATIC PROGRESSION PATTERN - TAKE KEYNOTE SPEECHES AT THE BELT AND ROAD FORUM FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION FOR EXAMPLE." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 8, no. 11, Nov. 2023, pp. 3651-3659, doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2023.v08i11.020. Accessed Nov. 2023. APA 6 Yumeng, W. (2023, November). A STUDY OF XI JINPING’S SPEECHES BASED ON THEMATIC PROGRESSION PATTERN - TAKE KEYNOTE SPEECHES AT THE BELT AND ROAD FORUM FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION FOR EXAMPLE. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 8(11), 3651-3659. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2023.v08i11.020 Chicago Yumeng, Wang. "A STUDY OF XI JINPING’S SPEECHES BASED ON THEMATIC PROGRESSION PATTERN - TAKE KEYNOTE SPEECHES AT THE BELT AND ROAD FORUM FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION FOR EXAMPLE." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 8, no. 11 (November 2023), 3651-3659. Accessed November, 2023. https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2023.v08i11.020.
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ABSTRACT: The Belt and Road Initiative has opened new windows of opportunity and is of far-reaching significance. The speeches of President Xi Jinping at the two Belt and Road Forums for International Cooperation were crucial in demonstrating China's attitude. Thematic progression theory are very important for discourse analysis. Most existing studies analyze important speeches of President Xi from the perspectives of political science, sociology and translation studies, but few scholars conduct discourse analysis on them. Therefore, this paper takes Zhu Yongsheng's thematic progression theory as the theoretical framework, selects two keynote speeches that President Xi delivered at the opening ceremony of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation as the corpus, and uses quantitative and qualitative research methods to analyze the themes and thematic progression patterns in the selected corpus. Through the analysis, this study finds out what TP patterns are used in the important speeches of President Xi Jinping, how many percentages of TP patterns are in those important speeches, and how those TP patterns realize their social functions. Especially, the use of the pronoun we as the constant theme, is an exquisite design of the discourse. It realizes its own social functions.

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