英国《卫报》关于钓鱼岛争端系列报道的批评话语分析

A Critical Discourse Analysis on The Guardian’s Serial Reports on Diaoyu Islands Dispute

本文以《卫报》有关钓鱼岛争端的系列报道为语料,以批评话语分析为理论框架,并以系统功能语法为工具,对之进行了批评性分析,揭露其隐含的意识形态意义和对处于岛争中的中日关系的立场态度。本研究发现:(1)该报利用词汇的分类功能构建了岛争中的中国和日本不同的形象;(2)对日方观点多频次、高质量的引述凸显了其情态上的偏向;(3)以语法隐喻为手段将报道者的偏日立场进行预设,并将中国'主题化';(4)利用及物系统区别对待中国和日本。

This paper aims to explore the ideological indications and differentiated attitudes towards China and Japan in the serial reports regarding the Diaoyu Islands dispute in The Guardian.The report texts are constructed into a small-sized corpus,and analyzed under the framework of critical discourse analysis,with system-functional grammar as the analysis tool.The authors find that:(1)The serial reports constructed different images for China and Japan in islands dispute,by means of lexical classification;(2)The frequent and profound quotations from Japanese resources reflected their modal preferences;(3)Reporters’preferential attitude towards Japan was presupposed by nominalizations and China was thematized by passivisation;(4)China and Japan were treated differently in the transitive system.