Author(s)

Jiao Peng

Corresponding Author

Jiao Peng

Abstract

In recent years, China gradually pays more attention to the development of culture. It is very important to learn what other countries think of Chinese culture, especially the United States given its important status in the world, before we take actions. When studying China’s images, previous researchers often collect and analyze articles on some international mainstream newspapers manually, which, however, is time-consuming and inefficient. With the development of corpus linguistics, nowadays, increasing on-line corpora are available to conduct such researches. In this paper, Corpus of Contemporary American English (shortened as COCA hereafter in this thesis) is applied to study China’s cultural image in the eyes of Americans.

Keywords

Coca, Chinese Cultural Vocabulary, English Learning