Analysis of Xi’s Diplomatic Speeches from the Perspective of Appraisal Theory

From a linguistic perspective, diplomatic speeches contain a wealth of appraisal resources to show the attitude tendency of the speech subject and the government who represents. From the perspective of the construction of national discourse, diplomatic speeches have a positive effect on the transmission of positive energy in a country and have an important value for the construction of national discourse. The research will analyze speeches that president Xi has made at the "Belt and Road" summit and at the BRICS summit. By artificial annotation, the author will use Antconc3.2.4 corpus retrieval software to sum up frequency of appraisal resources appearing in the speech discourse, then combing with quantitative and qualitative analysis method to explore how president Xi used the appraisal resources to transmit the Chinese voice and build the Chinese discourse in the diplomatic speeches from the achievements of international cooperation, the challenges and the contribution made by China.