"一帶一路"是中國提出的重要國際合作方案,充分了解各國新聞媒體的態度對深入推進"一帶一路"至關重要。該研究通過對4918篇英文新聞報紙報道(2013-2019年)的情感分析和語義網絡分析發現:從正面和負面詞匯比例的分布判斷,各國新聞報道在情感傾向上有所不同;進一步區分國家類型后發現,不同國家在報道框架和情感態度上差異顯著,相較于非沿線國家,"一帶一路"沿線國家的情感態度更加正面。此外,文化距離影響情感態度走向,且對不同國家影響機制不同。就沿線國家來說,文化距離適度會促進正面情感態度,文化距離過近或過遠會阻礙正面情感傾向;在非沿線國家中,文化距離越遠,情感傾向越負面。研究結果為官方決策提供理論支撐和實踐參考。

The Belt and Road Initiative( BRI) is an important program that strengthens international cooperation in the process of globalization. Fully understanding the attitudes of news media in various countries is crucial for further promoting common development. Through an emotion analysis and a semantic network analysis of 4918 pieces English news from different countries,this study finds that the international community holds a relatively positive attitude toward the Belt and Road Initiative in general,and that the emotional attitude of countries along the route is significantly more positive than that of non-BRI countries. The results also showe that cultural distances from China influence BRI countries and non-BRI countries with different mechanisms. The two extremes of high and low cultural distance hinder the positive emotional attitudes of BRI countries. A medium cultural distance promote positive emotional attitudes. Non-BRI countries’ emotional attitudes become more negative as their cultural distance increases.