及物性系统视角下灾难新闻报道的语篇分析——以利比亚洪灾新闻报道为例

Discourse Analysis of Disaster News Reports from the Perspective of Transitivity System—Taking Libyan Flood-Hit as a Case Study

灾难事件时有发生,灾难新闻报道亦是人们关注的焦点。本研究以韩礼德的及物性系统为理论框架,以10篇新华网关于利比亚洪灾的新闻报道为语料,使用UAM Corpus Tool 6.0对语料进行及物性标注和统计分析。结果表明,物质过程和言语过程出现的频次最高,与之对应这两种过程的参与者出现的频次也最高,体现了灾难新闻报道客观性、准确性和详实性的特点。本研究旨在验证使用及物性系统分析灾难新闻报道的可行性,为读者理解灾难新闻报道提供一个新的解读视角。Disaster events occur intermittently, and disaster news reports consistently capture public attention. This study uses Halliday’s transitivity system as the theoretical framework and analyzes a corpus of ten news reports from Xinhua Net regarding the flood disaster in Libya. The UAM Corpus Tool 6.0 facilitates the transitivity annotation and statistical analysis of the corpus. The results indicate that material and verbal processes appear most frequently, with their participants also appearing most frequently, which reflects the objectivity, accuracy, and comprehensiveness of disaster news reports. The purpose of this study is to validate the feasibility of applying the transitivity system to the analysis of disaster news reports, and offering readers a novel perspective for understanding such discourse.