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
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
Q： What progress has China＇s journalism circle made over the past 30 years of reform and opening up？ How do you assess the situation in China＇s journalism？
This paper compares the differences of information presentation in the straight news reports about international air disasters in ChD （China Daily） and NYT （The New York Times）. The type of straight news report is...This paper compares the differences of information presentation in the straight news reports about international air disasters in ChD （China Daily） and NYT （The New York Times）. The type of straight news report is regarded as the most objective news report in the journalistic field. The purpose of this research is to find out the different journalistic cultures or orientations between Chinese and American newspapers when they report the same world event. This paper finds that ChD prefers to provide more information for the consequences of the event and reactions to it usually by making general and static statements. NYT attaches more importance to background introduction and is more liable to use detailed and dynamic description展开更多
It has been about one decade since China takes effect the basic education reform, and this study chooses 14 news reports about Chinese basic education reform in the recent years from both America and China as the rese...It has been about one decade since China takes effect the basic education reform, and this study chooses 14 news reports about Chinese basic education reform in the recent years from both America and China as the research samples, and analyzes the samples from the perspective of critical discourse analysis （CDA） to show whether there are differences in the two countries＇ news reports. The samples in this study are selected from the official websites of the two countries. Among the American news reports, some reports from New York Times and others from CNN; while among the Chinese reports, some are from China Daily and others are from CCTV. Under the theoretical framework of CDA, this paper is based on Fairclough＇s three-dimensional modes, and chooses Halliday＇s systemic-functional grammar as the analytical tool. It aims to reveal the hidden relationship between news reports language and ideology as well as power through the contrastive analysis. Through the analysis it finds out that the power relations and ideologies tend to exist in news reports on the issue of Chinese basic education reform. The purposes of news reports are not only to provide the latest information to readers, but also to influence the readers ideologies and at last even to control the readers＇ ideologies through reading of the very issue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
Critical Discourse Analysis （CDA） is a new method in linguistic analysis. Usually approached from the angles of linguistics, sociology and psychology, CDA aims to uncover through analyzing linguistic forms, the rela...Critical Discourse Analysis （CDA） is a new method in linguistic analysis. Usually approached from the angles of linguistics, sociology and psychology, CDA aims to uncover through analyzing linguistic forms, the relations between language and ideology. By applying the specific methods of transitivity, transformation, modality and classification in CDA to a report on Barack Obama in The New York Times--a mainstream media in the United States, this paper aims to reveal the ideology hidden in the report, so as to raise the readers＇ awareness of perceiving unconscious ideologies in news and help them to have a deeper understanding of news and the language in news.展开更多
Stylistics is the study of style. It is a branch of linguistics concerned with the study of characteristic choices in use of language, made by different individuals or social groups in different situations of use. Acc...Stylistics is the study of style. It is a branch of linguistics concerned with the study of characteristic choices in use of language, made by different individuals or social groups in different situations of use. According to Martin （1991）, grammatical metaphor is the process by which the meanings are multiply-coded at the level of grammar. Meaning variation represented by lexicogrammatical changes are metaphor, and meaning differences represented by sound system may also bring about metaphorical phenomenon. This paper seeks to explore the stylistic value of intonation metaphor in functional stylistics by analyzing the distribution of intonation metaphors in both public speeches and news reports.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Q： What progress has China＇s journalism circle made over the past 30 years of reform and opening up？ How do you assess the situation in China＇s journalism？
文摘This paper compares the differences of information presentation in the straight news reports about international air disasters in ChD （China Daily） and NYT （The New York Times）. The type of straight news report is regarded as the most objective news report in the journalistic field. The purpose of this research is to find out the different journalistic cultures or orientations between Chinese and American newspapers when they report the same world event. This paper finds that ChD prefers to provide more information for the consequences of the event and reactions to it usually by making general and static statements. NYT attaches more importance to background introduction and is more liable to use detailed and dynamic description
文摘It has been about one decade since China takes effect the basic education reform, and this study chooses 14 news reports about Chinese basic education reform in the recent years from both America and China as the research samples, and analyzes the samples from the perspective of critical discourse analysis （CDA） to show whether there are differences in the two countries＇ news reports. The samples in this study are selected from the official websites of the two countries. Among the American news reports, some reports from New York Times and others from CNN; while among the Chinese reports, some are from China Daily and others are from CCTV. Under the theoretical framework of CDA, this paper is based on Fairclough＇s three-dimensional modes, and chooses Halliday＇s systemic-functional grammar as the analytical tool. It aims to reveal the hidden relationship between news reports language and ideology as well as power through the contrastive analysis. Through the analysis it finds out that the power relations and ideologies tend to exist in news reports on the issue of Chinese basic education reform. The purposes of news reports are not only to provide the latest information to readers, but also to influence the readers ideologies and at last even to control the readers＇ ideologies through reading of the very issue
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Critical Discourse Analysis （CDA） is a new method in linguistic analysis. Usually approached from the angles of linguistics, sociology and psychology, CDA aims to uncover through analyzing linguistic forms, the relations between language and ideology. By applying the specific methods of transitivity, transformation, modality and classification in CDA to a report on Barack Obama in The New York Times--a mainstream media in the United States, this paper aims to reveal the ideology hidden in the report, so as to raise the readers＇ awareness of perceiving unconscious ideologies in news and help them to have a deeper understanding of news and the language in news.
文摘Stylistics is the study of style. It is a branch of linguistics concerned with the study of characteristic choices in use of language, made by different individuals or social groups in different situations of use. According to Martin （1991）, grammatical metaphor is the process by which the meanings are multiply-coded at the level of grammar. Meaning variation represented by lexicogrammatical changes are metaphor, and meaning differences represented by sound system may also bring about metaphorical phenomenon. This paper seeks to explore the stylistic value of intonation metaphor in functional stylistics by analyzing the distribution of intonation metaphors in both public speeches and news reports.
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.
