Il potere discorsivo della Cina e il linguaggio dei media istituzionali cinesi

The paper intends to examine how the functions attributed to Chinese institutional media by the leadership discourse are performed. It will focus on if and how journalistic texts show traces of an effort to reinforce the knowledge and trust of the public in the Communist Party and to increase the influence and credibility of China at the international level. In order to verify if the news are effective in consolidating a national "discursive power", the analysis will focus on a case study: the representation of a recurring event in national politics in Chinese official newspapers, through the texts published on the subject by Xinhua Press Agency in 2015 and by the People’s Daily in 2017 in Chinese, English and French.