Framing the Pandemic: Self and Other Representations in China Daily’ s COVID-19 Coverage
VOLUME 22, 2025
The Role of Targeted Infra-popliteal Endovascular Angioplasty to Treat Diabetic Foot Ulcers Using the Angiosome Model: A Systematic Review
VOLUME 6, 2023
Shujing Li
School of Foreign Languages, Chongqing University of Technology, China
School of Foreign Languages, Chongqing University of Technology, China
Wei He
National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China
National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China
Abstract
The present study focuses on China Daily’s COVID-19 pandemic reporting to explore how the Self and Others (US, UK, Japan, and Africa) are constructed by Chinese mainstream media and discusses the possible reasons for those constructions. A corpus of news titles in the column “The global fight against COVID-19” on China Daily’s official website is investigated within the framework of the transitivity system of systemic functional linguistics. The study suggests that, through the linguistic resources of the transitivity system, China Daily builds shared images of Actors and Victims for both the Self and Others, with China being the most typical actor and the US and the UK the most typical victims. It also constructs salient images of Helper, Senser, and Soldier for China, Japan, and Africa respectively. Based on these findings, we argue that positivity is much more salient than negativity in China’s pandemic reporting and that besides national interests, Confucianism, the self-perception of a large country, and the sentimentality rooted in Chinese culture may have influenced China Daily’s portrayal of such international configuration.
Keywords :
COVID-19 Reporting; National Images; Transitivity Analysis; Systemic Functional Linguistics; China Daily.
Erin Saricilar
Lecture in accounting. University of Basrah, College of Administration and Economics, Department of Accounting.
Lecture in accounting. University of Basrah, College of Administration and Economics, Department of Accounting.
Abstract
Atherosclerotic disease significantly impacts patients with type 2 diabetes, who often present with recalcitrant peripheral ulcers. The angiosome model of the foot presents an opportunity to perform direct angiosome-targeted endovascular interventions to maximise both wound healing and limb salvage. A systematic review was performed, with 17 studies included in the final review. Below-the-knee endovascular interventions present significant technical challenges, with technical success depending on the length of lesion being treated and the number of angiosomes that require treatment. Wound healing was significantly improved with direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty, as was limb salvage, with a significant increase in survival without major amputation. Indirect angioplasty, where the intervention is applied to collateral vessels to the angiosomes, yielded similar results to direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty. Applying the angiosome model of the foot in direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty improves outcomes for patients with recalcitrant diabetic foot ulcers in terms of primary wound healing, mean time for complete wound healing and major amputation-free survival.
Keywords :
Diabetic foot ulcer, angiosome, angioplasty