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IJSSH 2025 Vol.15(4): 129-138
doi: 10.18178/ijssh.2025.15.4.1254

Think Tank Titles: Representation of China's Scientific Image

Yale Fan
School of Foreign Languages, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
Email: 51260400038@stu.ecnu.edu.cn

Manuscript received December 24, 2024; accepted February 27, 2025; published July 17, 2025.

Abstract—Titles play an important role in informing and engaging the audience. For Think Tank (TT) experts, compiling titles is a key strategy for engaging the audience and ensuring relevance in the digital age. As China’s scientific and technological advancements attract growing interest from TTs, it is essential to understand how these titles are constructed. This paper examines 1,800 titles from ten international and Chinese TTs, analyzing variations in the use of quotation marks, high-frequency words, syntactic structure, and content focus. The quantitative analysis reveals that Chinese experts tend to favor simpler, indicative titles, while international TTs commonly use compound formats and interrogative titles when discussing China’s science and technology. The qualitative analysis further underscores the contrasting research goals and linguistic conventions between the two groups. This study provides valuable insights into the rhetorical strategies employed in TT title construction with significant implications for how China’s scientific image is shaped and communicated within elite discourse.

Keywords—titles, Think Tank (TT), science and technology, China, cross-linguistic

Cite: Yale Fan, "Think Tank Titles: Representation of China’s Scientific Image," International Journal of Social Science and Humanity, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 129-138, 2025.

Copyright © 2025 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).
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