Abstract：The popularization of building a Global Community of Shared Future in current China is an exemplification of the X gongtongti construction in the Chinese political discourse. This paper examines the structural features, evolution and political significance of this productive construction. An investigation of the People’s Daily corpus shows that the formation of the X gongtongti word family has undergone four developmental stages: lexical borrowing, sporadic extensions, proactive extensions, and massive expansion. This evolutionary process is accompanied by two transformations, namely the change of the speaker standpoint from dependent reported-speech to independent self-reporting, and the semantic expansion of the X from the region to the event and subject. Consequently, the agency of conceptualization and the prototypes of cognition in the lexical formation have been reconstructed from the perspective of diversified idealized cognitive models. The thriving of the X gongtongti word family can be attributed to cultural-psychological and lexical-structural factors. In the practice of building an international discourse system, the cultural meme of harmony in Chinese thought triggers the speaker’s psychological intention, while the construction of X gongtongti provides an accessible structural vehicle for lexical loading. In addition, ample reports in mainstream media enhance its value in the political discourse and its political connotations. This successful discourse innovation as a case highlights the linguistic nature of politics and the political nature of language.
闫 克. “X共同体”词族：当代政治话语建构的成功案例[J]. 语言战略研究, 2022, 7(4): 86-96.
Yan Ke. “X gongtongti” Word Family: A Case of Contemporary Political Discourse Construction. , 2022, 7(4): 86-96.
