The Study on the National Image of China Shaped by the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics from the Perspective of Appraisal System 
Wang Yihan

Xi’an International Studies University, Xi’an City Shaanxi Province, 710000；

Abstract：The appraisal theory includes three subsystems: attitude, graduation and engagement system. Among them, the attitude system is the core of the appraisal theory. Since its proposal, scholars at home and abroad have analyzed the evaluation resources in various types of discourse, including applied research on news discourse, speech discourse, advertising discourse, and so on. China successfully hosted the 24th Winter Olympic Games in 2022. Domestic and foreign media have made a series of reports on the Beijing Winter Olympics. This study collected 20 news reports related to the Beijing Winter Olympics from the official website of China Daily from February 4th to February 21st, 2022. Based on the appraisal theory as the theoretical framework, it analyzed the high-frequency words in the reports from the attitude system to explore what kind of national image China shaped during the Winter Olympics.

The research results show that the news coverage of the Beijing Winter Olympics contains a large amount of evaluation resources. The most frequently used attitude resources in news reports are mostly positive ones, demonstrating China’s enthusiasm for hosting the Beijing Winter Olympics and its ability to successfully host the event, highlighting China’s image as a responsible major country.

Keywords: Appraisal theory; attitude system; Beijing Winter Olympic Games; national image construction; news reports

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