野生动物保护新闻报道的及物性分析

Analysis of Transitivity in News Reports on Wildlife Protection

本文主要探讨《人民日报》中野生动物保护新闻话语中及物性过程的分布以及背后隐含的生态取向。首先运用UAM Corpus Tool 3.3X分析及物性过程的分布情况,然后结合生态话语分析探讨话语背后的生态意义。研究表明,物质过程、心理过程以及关系过程是野生动物保护新闻话语中涉及的主要过程类型,大量的物质过程证明了中国政府以及社会群体和个体对保护生物多样性的贡献;关系过程介绍了人和动物的身份与特征,并对人和动物给予评价,客观地展现了人与动物的相互关系;心理过程描绘了人类和动物的心理世界以及人类对动物的认知态度。

News reports on wildlife protection in People’s Daily are chosen as the research object to explore the ecological orientation, aiming to guide people to live in harmony with nature. Firstly, UAM Corpus Tool 3.3X is used to analyze transitivity process, and then the ecological meaning behind the dis-course is discussed in combination with Ecological Discourse Analysis. The research shows that the material process, mental process and relationship process are the main process types involved in the news discourse of wildlife protection. A large number of material processes prove the contribu-tion of the Chinese government, social groups and individuals to the protection of biodiversity. The relationship process introduces the identity and characteristics of people and animals. The mental process describes the psychological world of human beings and animals and the cognitive attitude of human beings towards animals.