The Construction of China’s National Image From Transitivity Perspective—A Case Study of Fighting COVID-19: China in Action

Using the theory of transitivity system within Systemic Functional Linguistics as theoretical basis and white paper named Fighting COVID-19: China in Action, which was published by Chinese government on June 7, 2020 corpus, with help corpus analysis tool, UAM Corus Tool 3, this uses a combination qualitative quantitative methods to explore construction China’s national image. The results show that frequency material processes is extremely high, 88.26%, while existential behavioral occupy only an small proportion, 0.73% 0.09% respectively. Relational are second rank, 5.34%. frequencies verbal mental similar, accounting for 2.97% 2.6% Through detailed six processes, image advocates “people supremacy”, selfless collectivism, strong executive ability mobilization, great responsibility international society found be constructed. This lays foundation further studying path SFL. It also sheds some light official document.