Abstract—By using “levels of categorization” in
categorization theory in cognitive linguistics, this article studies
Biden Administration’s cognition on China. After analyzing the
categories it uses to recognize China in “Strategic Competition
Act of 2021,” this article discovers that its categorizing model
mainly consists of 5 modules: (1) dividing a category into
semantically non-overlapping subcategories, (2) juxtaposing a
subcategory and its elements, (3) ignoring the subcategory and
upgrading its elements, (4) concealing the subcategory and its
elements in the logical suppositions within the relevant
discourses, and (5) putting some elements on the border of two
subcategories.
Index Terms—Categorizing model, “Strategic Competition
Act of 2021”, the US’s cognition on China
Bin Zhou is with the Department of Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs
Management, China Foreign Affairs University, Beijing, CO 100037 China.
E-mail: williamsnzhou@163.com
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Cite:Bin Zhou, "A Study on Biden Administration’s Cognition on China: From the Perspective of Cognitive Discourse Analysis," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 404-408, 2023.