Exposition and Assimilation: The Media Discourse of the Community of Shared Future for Mankind in Kurdistan
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https://doi.org/10.21928/juhd.v12n4y2026.pp26-33الكلمات المفتاحية:
Media discourse، global narratives، Critical Discourse Analysis، soft power, corpusالملخص
Since the Community of Shared Future for Mankind (CSFM) has become a hot topic in China's international discourse, little academic research has been done on how it is seen in semi-autonomous areas like Kurdistan. Through the dual processes of exposition and assimilation, this essay explores the ways in which CSFM is expressed in Kurdish and Chinese contexts. The study finds the linguistic and ideological patterns that influence how CSFM is portrayed and received by comparing Kurdish news reports, editorials, and commentaries (2018–2025) with Chinese official speeches, white papers, and state media texts (2013–2024) using a corpus-assisted Critical Discourse Analysis. According to the findings, CSFM is revealed in Chinese discourse as a universalist vision based on community, destiny, harmony, and prosperity, whereas Kurdish discourse incorporates the idea into pragmatic frameworks focused on infrastructure, investment, and oil. According to these findings, global discourses are selectively reframed to fit local objectives rather than existing in an unaltered state. The work contributes to our understanding of how multinational narratives travel, adapt, and acquire resonance in a variety of situations by introducing the analytical categories of exposition and assimilation.
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