The Communication of Tai Chi in America:An Empirical Study Based on American Mass Media Corpus

Tai Chi has been widely spread in foreign countries, and there are plenty of researches about it, however, the spread of Tai Chi by the use of different mass media is seldom studied.This paper based on Communication Sciences, employing statistical and analytic methods of corpus linguistics, investigats communication of Tai Chi in different American media in the Corpus of Contemporary American English. The results show that: 1) From the perspective of communication form, the newspapers and magazines are the main channels, the following forms are novels, broadcasts, and academic journals;2) From the perspective of contents, the communication contents of Tai Chi focus on reducing the process of aging, curing chronic diseases, fitting, medical care, and so forth. And different media focus on different aspects. All of them reflect the propaganda and transmission of Tai Chi in America. This study provides the empirical data for the development of Tai Chi in America and the referent value for the communication of Tai Chi in the international society in the future.