Application of Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis in Area Studies

作者：孟雪 谷 · 发表于：Interdisciplinary Science Letters · 年份：2026 · DOI：10.12677/isl.2026.104126 · 研究领域：Socioeconomic Development in Asia、Discourse Analysis in Language Studies、Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

区域国别学作为新兴交叉学科，其学科建设与方法论创新备受学界关注。本文将语料库话语分析应用于区域国别研究，提出“四步法”研究框架，并以新加坡和马来西亚两国媒体关于“孝道”的话语为例，考察其搭配词、关键词和词语索引，从而揭示两国“孝道”话语建构的差异及其深层社会文化根源。研究发现，新加坡“孝道”话语呈现出国家主导、治理导向的鲜明现代化特征；而马来西亚“孝道”话语则体现出社会倡导、文化传承与民间践行的本土特色。研究表明，两国“孝道”话语建构的分野，本质上是两国不同国家历史进程、国家治理模式与文化语境共同作用的结果。本研究表明语料库话语分析可以为区域国别研究提供一条可行的路径。Area Studies, as an emerging interdisciplinary field, has attracted significant academic attention for its disciplinary development and methodological innovations. This study applies corpus-based discourse analysis to Area Studies and proposes a four-step analytical framework. Based on collocates and concordances, it reveals the differences in the construction of “filial piety” in news discourse between Singapore and Malaysia and their underlying sociocultural roots. The findings indicate that Singapore’s “filial piety” discourse exhibits a distinctive modernization feature of being state-led and governance-oriented. In contrast, Malaysia’s “filial piety” discourse reflects local characteristics of social advocacy, cultural inheritance, and grassroots practice. The study suggests that the divergence in the discursive construction of “filial piety” is essentially the result of the interplay of their different historical trajectories, state governance models, and cultural contexts. It shows that corpus-based discourse analysis can offer a viable approach for Area Studies.