Data and scripts for: Audience-designed diplomatic discourse: Cultural positioning and intercultural framing in Chinese foreign ministry press conferences

Annotated corpus data, analysis scripts, and output files for a study on audience-differentiated diplomatic discourse in Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) press conferences (March 2021 – May 2025). The study examines how institutional spokespersons systematically differentiate discourse framing and cultural positioning when addressing media from different cultural regions. This repository contains: (1) shared annotated corpus of 10,012 question–answer units from Chinese MFA press conferences (5 yearly documents); (2) Paper C–specific data, analysis scripts, discourse examples, and figures. Version 1.0.0 contains materials for Paper C. Future versions will add Paper A and Paper B materials.