A Critical Analysis of Media Reports on China's Air Defense Identification Zone

This study is based on the analysis and comparison of news articles about China's announcement of Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) through the three corpora built from English-language Chinese media, western media and Taiwanese media news reports. Applying this to the corpus linguistic technique of automated semantic tagging with a discourse-historical Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) framework, the article demonstrated how processes such as two-word concgrams, keywords, key semantic categories and relevant concordances analysis were able to identify representations of China's ADIZ as well as directing qualitative analysis. It further examined how ideology is reflected in this context via the media discourses in relation to China's ADIZ.