National Image in English Translation of Country Leader's New Year Greetings

Based on Fairclough's three-dimensional critical discourse analysis model, this study investigates China's image in the English translation of country leader's New Year Greetings from 2014 to 2021. The method corpus linguistics is applied, and modal system systemic functional perspective employed. reveals that country's hardworking, enjoying good governance social harmony, pursuing peace development, as well international cooperation, which can be reflected use high-frequency content words, keywords, verbs discourse. county's construction influenced by translators, media, sociocultural factors.