经济类新闻语篇的批评性话语分析——《中国日报》和《纽约时报》关于谷歌关闭中国大陆网站报道的比较分析

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Economic News Reports in The New York Times and China Daily——A Comparative Study of Reports on Google's Shutdown of Its Website in China's Mainland

本文以费尔克劳的批评话语分析三维模式和韩礼德的系统功能语法为理论框架,从及物性、情态和互文性这三个方面分析比较《中国日报》和《纽约时报》关于谷歌关闭中国大陆网站的不同报道,揭示新闻记者如何通过操控语言来表达不同的意识形态,而这种意识形态又与各自政府的观点立场一致,指出不同的机构语境、情景语境和文化语境决定着同一新闻事件会有不同的报道方式,呼吁广大读者以批判的眼光来阅读经济类新闻语篇。

Adopting Fairclough' s three-dimensional model of CDA and Halliday's systemic-functional grammar as the theoretical framework, this paper conducts a comparative analysis of two economic news reports in The New York Times and China Daily about Google's shutdown of its site in China's Mainland in terms of transitivity, modality and intertextuality. And it is found that the journalists from the two news agencies manipulate their language to express their different ideologies which coincide with their respective government stance. This paper points out that different institutional, situational and cultural contexts play a decisive role in the different representations of news discourses even on the same economic event. And it is suggested that readers should view news reports critically.