The outbreak in Shanghai,China in 2022 brought huge challenges to this protracted battle against the epidemic.Based on the deliberate metaphor theory,this study uses the news reports of Shanghai’s fight against the C...The outbreak in Shanghai,China in 2022 brought huge challenges to this protracted battle against the epidemic.Based on the deliberate metaphor theory,this study uses the news reports of Shanghai’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic as the corpus and uses quantitative and qualitative methods to analyze the types and characteristics of deliberate metaphors and its pragmatic purpose in a specific context.The results show that there are various types used in news reports,among which War metaphor,Climate metaphor and Education metaphor are used more.The deliberate metaphors makes the news more understandable attractively and pleasantly,thus evoking the emotional resonance of the public.展开更多
Based on ideational,interpersonal,and textual metafunctions in systemic functional linguistics(SFL),a contrastive analysis is carried out on two same-topic news reports of Chinese and American main stream media.Two re...Based on ideational,interpersonal,and textual metafunctions in systemic functional linguistics(SFL),a contrastive analysis is carried out on two same-topic news reports of Chinese and American main stream media.Two reports from the People’s Daily and CNN are analyzed in terms of the lexical-grammatical systems(transitivity,mood and modality,and theme)realizing the three corresponding metafunctions to compare Chinese and American media reports on the same event.Results show that the two reports deploy different transitivity processes,but indicate similarity in the uses of mood and thematic choices.There are also respective preferences for reporting the sametopic news:CNN focuses on the whole process of the incident,the report being relatively objective and fair without obvious emotional bias,while the report of People’s Daily is relatively comprehensive,analyzing the incident from various angles,and playing a positive role in guiding public opinion.展开更多
Coronavirus disease,or simply COVID-19,has affected many regions worldwide.The pandemic has caused great losses from all walks of life.Millions of people have died from the virus.In order to facilitate people’s under...Coronavirus disease,or simply COVID-19,has affected many regions worldwide.The pandemic has caused great losses from all walks of life.Millions of people have died from the virus.In order to facilitate people’s understanding of COVID-19,the present study adopts the theory of semantic field to analyze the COVID-19 lexicon that appeared in China Daily,an authoritative international daily newspaper issued by China.A total of 100 pieces of English news issued by China Daily have been randomly selected for this research.According to the theory of semantic field in structural linguistics,the meaning of a word cannot stand alone,but come into being with the meanings of its related words.Therefore,it is reasonable to try to understand COVID-19 as thoroughly as possible with relevant words,which form its semantic field.展开更多
This thesis has done discourse analysis of a news report by the name of"Gulf Coast is slammed by Rita but escapes the worst"from a kind of American newspaper"USA Today"at four levels:graphological,...This thesis has done discourse analysis of a news report by the name of"Gulf Coast is slammed by Rita but escapes the worst"from a kind of American newspaper"USA Today"at four levels:graphological,lexical,syntactic and semantic.Through the analysis,weknow that this news report is not the most important news,but it shows many features of news discourse:long sentences,short powerfulwords,informative lead,inverted pyramid body,etc.Such analysis may do help for our reading,understanding,composing or translatingnews report.展开更多
This research made a comprehensive comparison on the listening test of the new CET-4 with the old one. Besides, by applying the schema theory, it also provides a series of new teaching methods which can be used to imp...This research made a comprehensive comparison on the listening test of the new CET-4 with the old one. Besides, by applying the schema theory, it also provides a series of new teaching methods which can be used to improve the quality of the college English listening courses' teaching and help students solve the problem in the news report section of the new CET-4.展开更多
文摘The outbreak in Shanghai,China in 2022 brought huge challenges to this protracted battle against the epidemic.Based on the deliberate metaphor theory,this study uses the news reports of Shanghai’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic as the corpus and uses quantitative and qualitative methods to analyze the types and characteristics of deliberate metaphors and its pragmatic purpose in a specific context.The results show that there are various types used in news reports,among which War metaphor,Climate metaphor and Education metaphor are used more.The deliberate metaphors makes the news more understandable attractively and pleasantly,thus evoking the emotional resonance of the public.
文摘Based on ideational,interpersonal,and textual metafunctions in systemic functional linguistics(SFL),a contrastive analysis is carried out on two same-topic news reports of Chinese and American main stream media.Two reports from the People’s Daily and CNN are analyzed in terms of the lexical-grammatical systems(transitivity,mood and modality,and theme)realizing the three corresponding metafunctions to compare Chinese and American media reports on the same event.Results show that the two reports deploy different transitivity processes,but indicate similarity in the uses of mood and thematic choices.There are also respective preferences for reporting the sametopic news:CNN focuses on the whole process of the incident,the report being relatively objective and fair without obvious emotional bias,while the report of People’s Daily is relatively comprehensive,analyzing the incident from various angles,and playing a positive role in guiding public opinion.
文摘Coronavirus disease,or simply COVID-19,has affected many regions worldwide.The pandemic has caused great losses from all walks of life.Millions of people have died from the virus.In order to facilitate people’s understanding of COVID-19,the present study adopts the theory of semantic field to analyze the COVID-19 lexicon that appeared in China Daily,an authoritative international daily newspaper issued by China.A total of 100 pieces of English news issued by China Daily have been randomly selected for this research.According to the theory of semantic field in structural linguistics,the meaning of a word cannot stand alone,but come into being with the meanings of its related words.Therefore,it is reasonable to try to understand COVID-19 as thoroughly as possible with relevant words,which form its semantic field.
文摘This thesis has done discourse analysis of a news report by the name of"Gulf Coast is slammed by Rita but escapes the worst"from a kind of American newspaper"USA Today"at four levels:graphological,lexical,syntactic and semantic.Through the analysis,weknow that this news report is not the most important news,but it shows many features of news discourse:long sentences,short powerfulwords,informative lead,inverted pyramid body,etc.Such analysis may do help for our reading,understanding,composing or translatingnews report.
文摘This research made a comprehensive comparison on the listening test of the new CET-4 with the old one. Besides, by applying the schema theory, it also provides a series of new teaching methods which can be used to improve the quality of the college English listening courses' teaching and help students solve the problem in the news report section of the new CET-4.
