%0 Journal Article %T A statistical intra %A Meng Ji %J Newspaper Research Journal %@ 2376-4791 %D 2018 %R 10.1177/0739532918796231 %X This study investigates the instrumental role of translated environmental news in informing public opinions on environmental issues among Chinese-speaking communities. Its contribution to methodology is exploring the automatic corpus annotation tools, that is, semantic analysis system. Its contribution to theory is identifying and distinguishing among three recurrent sub-news-types of translated environmental news published on BBC China, that is, governance; international relations and environmental science. Discourse features attributed to these subtypes of environmental news underscore BBC China¡¯s reporting styles and strategies and largely explain its wide appeal and credibility among the target audiences %K corpus linguistics %K news translation %K environmental news %K semantic analysis %U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0739532918796231