A Review of Chinese Critical Discourse Analysis Research in 2024

Abstract

      Since its introduction to the academic community in China in 1995, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has undergone initial developmental stages and has been widely accepted over the past 30 years. An increasing number of Chinese scholars have begun to apply the principles and methods of CDA to explore the role of discourse in Chinese social life. Against this backdrop, this study selects 32 core articles from the CSSCI and Peking University Core journals in the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) database for the year 2024, focusing on chinese CDA research. The research findings are divided into two parts: theoretical research and practical research. Theoretical research explores the relationship between language and reality, as well as studies on CDA based on cognitive linguistics and psychological frameworks. The practical research examines CDA applications in politics and media, economy and energy, culture and literature, education and related fields, and socio-cultural aspects. This study concludes that the research themes of CDA in 2024 exhibit diversity and interdisciplinarity. The research methods mainly include the social cognitive approach, multimodal discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, metaphor analysis, three-dimensional discourse analysis, proximization theory, and others. Future research recommendations include exploring how to uncover the deep-seated structures and ideologies of discourse through large-scale corpus analysis, while also placing greater emphasis on cross-cultural discourse analysis within the context of globalization. This involves investigating how discursive practices interact and influence each other across diverse cultural, linguistic, and social contexts.