The study of Chinese language is an important way to understand the changes and developments of Chinese society, and news, as an authentic, widely accessible, and diverse medium, provides essential data for examining the social phenomena reflected in language. This study utilized the Chinese Gigaword corpus, specifically news from the Chinese Mainland and Taiwan, to analyze the commonly used word 提高 tígāo ‘improve’, conducting a comparative analysis of its collocations in subject-verb and verb-object relationships. It examined the phenomenon of improvement as reported by representative news media on both sides of the Taiwan Strait from the early 1990s to the early 21st century. Studying common words helps understand the shared concerns of news agencies across the Strait, while the analysis of unique words reveals the differences in focus between the two sides more directly. Investigating these similarities and differences enhances our understanding of the use of Chinese in cross-Strait news reporting and provides insight into societal developments on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
Keywords
vocabulary, global Chinese, newspaper, improve, the Chinese mainland, Taiwan
source
International Journal of Chinese Language Education; Dec 2024; Issue No. 16; p.187-204
Language
Chinese
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