本研究中心紧扣“讲好中国故事，传播好中国声音”的时代命题，旨在促进我国对外媒体及外宣翻译文件中的中国话语构建、国家形象自塑和当代社会呈现的研究。中心结合话语分析、语料库分析和计算机编程语言等研究方法，组建了一支由国内外高校教授及博士后、联合国教科文组织专家、英国罗素学院执行董事、应用语言学研究生及本科生组成的科研能力强、学历层次高的科研团队，并为政府部门和新闻媒体提供咨政建议，为国内外学者和校内外科研爱好者提供交流平台。
目前，中心的主要研究对象包括：中国国际电视台（CGTN）、《中国日报》（China Daily）、《环球时报》英文版（Global Times）、《人民日报》英文版（People’s Daily）以及国外主流英文媒体等。中心研究成果可为中国话语和中国形象的构建、中国社情和文化的对外传播、外宣媒体的进一步发展等提供有力的数据支持和建议。
本研究中心的研究课题“我国主流英文报纸的中国话语构建研究”已获国家社会科学基金立项并顺利结项，专著《我国主流英文媒体的中国话语构建》已由人民出版社出版。
主任：潘紫萌
Email: pzm@swufe.edu.cn
Centre for the Study of Discourse and Society
The Research Centre for the Study of Discourse and Society (hereinafter referred to as “the Centre”) is one of the academic institutions at the Faculty of International Studies, SWUFE. Upholding the spirit of “better telling China’s stories, making China’s voice heard”, the Centre strives to promote research on the construction of Chinese discourse, the representation of China’s contemporary society, and national image as seen in the mainstream English-language media and official government documents of China. In combination with research methods such as discourse analysis, corpus analysis and Python, the Centre has embraced a strong research team comprising members with rich research experiences and strong scientific research capability, including university professors and postdocs, experts from UNESCO, the CEO of Russell School as well as postgraduates and undergraduates in Applied Linguistics. The Centre aims to render suggestions for the government and the media of China as well as a platform for scholarly exchanges between scholars and learners from home and abroad.
At present, research projects at the Centre address a wide range of fields and the main research focus is placed on China Global Television Network (CGTN), China Daily, Global Times, People’s Daily, and mainstream English-language media in other countries. Major findings and conclusions at the Centre have been rendering supports for the construction of Chinese discourse, the overseas communication of Chinese society and culture, and further development of the English-language media of China.
One of the research projects of the Centre “A study on the construction of Chinese Discourse by the mainstream English-language newspapers of China” has been approved by the National Social Science Fund and completed with success. The related book The Construction of Chinese Discourse by the Mainstream English-language Media of China has been published by the People’s Publishing House.
Director: PAN Zimeng
Email: pzm@swufe.edu.cn
