Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Research Background 1.2 Research Rationale
1.3 Belt and Road Initiative1.3.1 Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and
China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) 1.3.2 BRI and China's
Neighboring Countries1.4 Significance of the Study1.5 Objectives of the
Research 1.6 Research Questions 1.8 Summary Chapter 2 Review of
Literature 2.1 Studies on Critical Discourse Analysis 2.1.1 Language,
Ideology and Media Power 2.2 Studies on Critical Discourse Analysis and
Corpus Linguistics 2.2.1 Critical Discourse Analysis 2.2.2 Faircloughian
CDA and conceptualization of power 2.2.3 Corpus Linguistics 2.3 Studies
on CPEC and BRI 2.3.1 Pak-China Friendship: Iron Brothers 2.4 Topography
of China Pakistan Economic Corridor 2.5 One Belt One Road (OBOR) 2.6
Gwadar Port2.7 Summary Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework and Methodology
3.1 Overview of CDA and CL 3.2 Theoretical Framework of the Present
Study3.2.1 Fairclough Three-dimension Model 3.2.2 Corpus-based CDA 3.2.3
Merger of CDA and CL 3.3 Procedures of Data Collection 3.3.1 Corpus for
the Study 3.3.1.1. Pakistan English Newspaper Corpus (PENC) 3.3.1.2
Indian English Newspaper Corpus (IENC) 3.4 Software used in the Study
3.5 Keywords and Corpus Techniques 3.6 Summary of Chapter Chapter 4
Perceptions of China Pakistan Economic Corridor and Belt and Road
Initiative 4.1 Representation of CPEC in PENC by Frequency items 4.2
Representation of CPEC in PENC by Keywords 4.3 Collocation of 'Iron
brothers' and China- Pakistan Alliance 4.4 N-Grams of Targeted words 4.5
Bigrams of Top Twenty Keywords4.6 Collocates and Concordance lines4.7
Top Twenty Collocates in PNEC 4.7.1 Collocates of China Pakistan
Economic Corridor (CEPC) 4.7.2 Collocates of CPEC with T-score 4.8
Representation of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) 4.9 Concordance Lines
4.9.1 Concordance Lines of "CPEC" 4.9.2 Concordance Lines of "BRI" 4.9.3
Concordance lines of 'China' 4.9.4 Analysis of Selected Keywords
pertinent to CPEC 4.9.5 Concordance lines of "we" 4.10 Summary of the
Chapter Chapter 5 Perception of BRI and CPEC in Indian Newspapers 5.1
Introduction 5.3 Key terms against BNC in IENC 5.4 Biagram of Top Twenty
Keywords against BNC 5.5 Concordances of CPEC in Indian sub corpus 5.6
Modifiers of "China" in Indian Corpus 5.7 Concordances of "Threat" in
Indian Sub-corpus 5.7.1 Application of "Threat" as a noun co-occurring
with modifiers5.8 Concordances of 'We" 5.8.1 Verbs Collocating with "we"
5.9 Concordance of 'China' 5.10 Keywords Against BNC in Indian
Sub-corpus 5.11 Representation of BRI by Co-occurring Adverbs 5.12
Summary Chapter 6 Discussions: Similarities and Differences of BRI and
CPEC in Media Discourses of India and Pakistan 6.1 Introduction6.2
Comparison of Keyness of PENC and IENC against BNC 6.3 Belt and Road
Reshaping the Future 6.4 Geo-Strategic Perspective 6.5 Pak-India
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