从批评语言学角度对比分析《中国日报》和《纽约时报》对中美关系的报道

A Contrastive Study of Reports on China-US Relations in China Daily and The New York Times: A Perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis

批评语言学作为重要的语篇分析方法,以Halliday的系统功能语法为理论基础,旨在研究语言、权力和意识之间的关系,透过表面的语言形式或结构揭示意识形态和话语如何源于社会结构和权势关系又是如何为之服务的。本文以《纽约时报》和《中国日报》对中美关系报道的4个新闻语篇作为语料,从批评语言学角度对其进行历时和共时对比分析,阐明意识形态、权势和语篇之间的关系,揭示批评话语分析在分析新闻语篇的价值并且探索《纽约时报》和《中国日报》不同时期报道中所隐含的意识形态和权势。

Critical Linguistics (CL) as an important approach to discourse analysis is based on Halliday’s Sys-temic Functional Grammar (SFG). It aims at investigating the relationship between language, power and ideology, and demonstrating how ideologies and discourses serve the social structures and power relationships through language structures or linguistic forms. This paper takes four news reports from The New York Times and China Daily in different periods as data, adopts CL as the main theoretical assumptions and methodology, and conducts diachronic and synchronic analyses to illustrate the relations between ideologies, power and discourses. It also demonstrates the value of CL in the analysis of news reports and explores the hidden ideologies and power in the language of news reports from The New York Times and China Daily in different periods.