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Saudi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (SJHSS)
Volume-4 | Issue-01 | 36-40
Review Article
A Relevance-Adaptation Approach: A Study on China Foreign Ministry Spokesperson’s Remarks
Weixuan Shi, Pengying Qu
Published : Jan. 27, 2019
DOI : 10.21276/sjhss.2019.4.1.5
Abstract
As the diplomatic organ of China, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China regularly holds press conferences, in which the spokesperson’s remarks are important tools for expressing Chinese positions, dealing with foreign affairs and maintaining Sino-foreign relations. This paper analyzes the spokesperson’s remarks from the perspective of relevanceadaptation theory to explore the essential process of spokesperson’s discourse production and interpretation with specific examples. The results are based on the corpus of spokesperson’s remarks from January to December, 2017. This paper attempts to shed some lights on comprehensively interpreting the spokesperson’s remarks at the lexical level
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