Features of means of linguistic manipulation in the socio-political dis- course of the PRC (based on articles on Chinese-American relations)

   The article examines the features of the means of linguistic manipulation in the socio-political discourse of the People’s Republic of China.

   The purpose of this study is to identify the peculiarities of the use of language manipulation techniques in news articles and media publications in China.

   The research is based on scientific methods such as contextual analysis, linguostatistical method and intent analysis. The materials for the study were articles for 2021-2023 published on such Chinese news portals as the Xinhua News Agency, the news tabloid “Huanqiu”, the Beijing newspaper of the Communist Party of China “The Beijing News”, the news portal “Sina News”, the daily newspaper of the Communist Youth League of China “China Youth Daily”, “Beijing Daily” and state news agency “China News Service”. In the first part of the article, the authors consider the issue of defining such concepts as socio-political discourse and language manipulation in modern linguistics. Then an analysis of Chinese articles is provided on the use of linguistic manipulative means and the identification of their characteristic features. During the analysis, the authors highlight lexical, grammatical, graphic and phonetic techniques of language manipulation used in Chinese media. The authors come to the conclusion that the use of language manipulation in Chinese socio-political discourse is directly related to the position of the government and the CCP on certain social and political events, as well as the interaction of all levels of the Chinese language (grammatical, lexical and phonetic) for successful implementation of the technique of language manipulation in the socio-political discourse of the PRC.

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