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
Transitivity system is the core part of systemic-functional grammar,which aims to expose the relationship between language and ideology.This thesis uses comparative methods to analyze the news discourses of the Copenh...Transitivity system is the core part of systemic-functional grammar,which aims to expose the relationship between language and ideology.This thesis uses comparative methods to analyze the news discourses of the Copenhagen Conference.The study notices that the coverage of news discourses in The New York Times is not as neutral as that in China Daily.Based on the theory of transitivity,on the one hand,it proves the applicability of transitivity to news discourse analysis.On the other hand,the present study tries to provide readers with a different perspective of understanding language and a critical reading method,which helps to raise readers' awareness of ideology.展开更多
Critical discourse analysis(CDA) is an influential and useful approach to comprehend a discourse, which helps reveal the embedded ideology within the discourse. According to the CDA and systemic-functional grammar, th...Critical discourse analysis(CDA) is an influential and useful approach to comprehend a discourse, which helps reveal the embedded ideology within the discourse. According to the CDA and systemic-functional grammar, this paper tries to analyze two American news reports on South China Sea issue and to explore the hidden ideology behind them.展开更多
Obama’s bow in Japan triggers hot discussion.The news agency AFP and AP both report the issue.This paper focuses on the comparison of the two news reports about the same issue in lexical,syntactical and semantic leve...Obama’s bow in Japan triggers hot discussion.The news agency AFP and AP both report the issue.This paper focuses on the comparison of the two news reports about the same issue in lexical,syntactical and semantic level through textual analysis.Different styles are chosen by different news agencies and journalists in particular to construct social reality from their particular perspective.Study on the different styles used in the news report can help us hold a more objective view towards the news.展开更多
Based on systemic functional linguistics, this study carries out a comparative analysis of the Arab News and the CNN's reportage on the Farah Incident. Through the analysis, this study shows that there exist strik...Based on systemic functional linguistics, this study carries out a comparative analysis of the Arab News and the CNN's reportage on the Farah Incident. Through the analysis, this study shows that there exist striking differences between the representations of the Farah Incident in the two news media. It is argued that these differences are not arbitrary but ideologically motivated.展开更多
News is very important in our daily life, which we can get sufficient information from different kinds of news. In this paper, I take Halliday's systemic-functional grammar as the theoretical foundation to analyze...News is very important in our daily life, which we can get sufficient information from different kinds of news. In this paper, I take Halliday's systemic-functional grammar as the theoretical foundation to analyze the news. Halliday categorizes the metafunctions into experiential function, interpersonal function and textual function. Here, I will make a detailed analysis of the English news reports in China Daily from transitivity of experiential function to find out the linguistic characteristics of the English news reports.展开更多
This study investigated the ideological use of linguistics features in online news articles published by The Zimbab^we Herald Onl~^^e newspaper and The Z^^bab^ea^Independent Online newspaper. The data was gathered dur...This study investigated the ideological use of linguistics features in online news articles published by The Zimbab^we Herald Onl~^^e newspaper and The Z^^bab^ea^Independent Online newspaper. The data was gathered during the period between 2008 and 2016 where there was media hype regarding the Zimbabwean political and economic instability. During this period in question Zimbabwe has had a constant phase of bad political and economic instability. Therefore, this publication is very crucial as it comes at a moment when Zimbabwe is undergoing its worst political and economic phase in years.Even though Zimbabwe's political situation seems to be unstable, the current government is adamant that the situation will get better before its its next presidential election in 2018. In 2009 the two political parties Zanu- PF and MDC forged a Unity Government, the end of the unity- government triggered power struggles within both Zanu- PF and MDC, which made Zimbabwean politics even more complicated. Consequently, the current study made use of thirty editorial articles ranging between 900 tokens to 1200 tokens. All the files gathered were transferred into text files so that they could be easily transferable into Antconc 3.2.1, which is a concordance software programme used in corpus linguistics to analyze written corpora. The lexical features that were identified in the study were analyzed through the use of Fairclough5s (1989) Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) whilst grammatical features such as plurality, person and tense were analyzed through the use of Halliday5s (1985) Systemic Functional Grammar. The findings from this study revealed that journalists of the articles from The Zimbabwe Herald Online newspaper made use of linguistic and grammatical features that were meant to maintain Zanu- PF ideologies whilst corpus from The Zimbabwean Independent Online newspaper revealed the use of linguistic features that favoured the ideologies of the MDC.展开更多
Intentionality which reflects the writer's attitudes in his writing process is a very important standard for critical discourse analysis.It determines the language strategy of a text as well as its forms , textual...Intentionality which reflects the writer's attitudes in his writing process is a very important standard for critical discourse analysis.It determines the language strategy of a text as well as its forms , textually or non-textually.And it influences the effect of the discourse communication.News reports usually have a strong intentionality.Analyzing the language of a certain piece of news report may reveal its intentionality.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
Critical discourse analysis(CDA) can help people better understand the subjective view and the hidden ideology in a news discourse. Based on M.A.K. Halliday's theory of transitivity and classification, this essay ...Critical discourse analysis(CDA) can help people better understand the subjective view and the hidden ideology in a news discourse. Based on M.A.K. Halliday's theory of transitivity and classification, this essay analyzes 3 reports from The New York Times and finds that despite how news reports may seem objective, every report contains the author's own opinion he/she tries to convince the readers. Special attention needs to be paid when we come across news discourse and we shouldn't let the hidden ideology in the reports manipulate our own viewpoint toward this world.展开更多
The news,a special form of discourse,can easily influence people's emotion and evaluation.Although its characteristics require the reported messages to be objective and fair,there is no absolute objectivity.This p...The news,a special form of discourse,can easily influence people's emotion and evaluation.Although its characteristics require the reported messages to be objective and fair,there is no absolute objectivity.This paper aims to conduct a systematic analysis of finite modal operator and modal adjuncts under the framework of Halliday's systemic-functional grammar.The linguistic data is drawn from two pieces of news reports on hand-foot-mouth disease in English and Chinese.Both qualitative and quantitative research methods are adopted to discover the difference as well as similarity between the two languages with regards to the realization of modality.展开更多
To find out different discourse features of these two different news reports and different ideologies reflected in the these two news reporting,Fairclough’s three-dimensional model of critical discourse analysis is a...To find out different discourse features of these two different news reports and different ideologies reflected in the these two news reporting,Fairclough’s three-dimensional model of critical discourse analysis is adopted as the basic theoretical framework.And a contrastive analysis of news reports concerned with Huang Yan Island dispute from Reuters and Xinhua is carried out.The data of this article is collected from the official website of Reuters and Xinhua respectively,including one news report on Huang Yan island dispute from Reuters and two news reports from Xinhua.By comparing and analyzing the news resources reporting mode,the hidden political,historical and cultural ideologies behind the news discourse can be exposed.And Fairclough’s three-dimensional model of critical discourse analysis is an useful tool for interpreting the news reports to explore the hidden ideology.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 paper makes a study on the significance of theme and its application in discourse analysis.Through the analysis of a news report from The New York Times,the author deeply discusses the importance of theme in the ...This paper makes a study on the significance of theme and its application in discourse analysis.Through the analysis of a news report from The New York Times,the author deeply discusses the importance of theme in the process of discourse analysis.展开更多
Modality is used to express subjective judgment as well as the speaker’s opinions and attitudes.This paper aims to analyze the reporters’orientation reflected by linguistic modal expressions in English news reports ...Modality is used to express subjective judgment as well as the speaker’s opinions and attitudes.This paper aims to analyze the reporters’orientation reflected by linguistic modal expressions in English news reports from the perspective of Systemic-Functional Grammar,especially from the perspective of type,value,orientation and polarity.展开更多
Based on the neologism in the broadcast news reporting, this paper will introduce different kinds of the most frequently used words today, including the extended meanings of the conventional words and new words create...Based on the neologism in the broadcast news reporting, this paper will introduce different kinds of the most frequently used words today, including the extended meanings of the conventional words and new words created by word formation.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？
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Transitivity system is the core part of systemic-functional grammar,which aims to expose the relationship between language and ideology.This thesis uses comparative methods to analyze the news discourses of the Copenhagen Conference.The study notices that the coverage of news discourses in The New York Times is not as neutral as that in China Daily.Based on the theory of transitivity,on the one hand,it proves the applicability of transitivity to news discourse analysis.On the other hand,the present study tries to provide readers with a different perspective of understanding language and a critical reading method,which helps to raise readers' awareness of ideology.
文摘Critical discourse analysis(CDA) is an influential and useful approach to comprehend a discourse, which helps reveal the embedded ideology within the discourse. According to the CDA and systemic-functional grammar, this paper tries to analyze two American news reports on South China Sea issue and to explore the hidden ideology behind them.
文摘Obama’s bow in Japan triggers hot discussion.The news agency AFP and AP both report the issue.This paper focuses on the comparison of the two news reports about the same issue in lexical,syntactical and semantic level through textual analysis.Different styles are chosen by different news agencies and journalists in particular to construct social reality from their particular perspective.Study on the different styles used in the news report can help us hold a more objective view towards the news.
文摘Based on systemic functional linguistics, this study carries out a comparative analysis of the Arab News and the CNN's reportage on the Farah Incident. Through the analysis, this study shows that there exist striking differences between the representations of the Farah Incident in the two news media. It is argued that these differences are not arbitrary but ideologically motivated.
文摘News is very important in our daily life, which we can get sufficient information from different kinds of news. In this paper, I take Halliday's systemic-functional grammar as the theoretical foundation to analyze the news. Halliday categorizes the metafunctions into experiential function, interpersonal function and textual function. Here, I will make a detailed analysis of the English news reports in China Daily from transitivity of experiential function to find out the linguistic characteristics of the English news reports.
文摘This study investigated the ideological use of linguistics features in online news articles published by The Zimbab^we Herald Onl~^^e newspaper and The Z^^bab^ea^Independent Online newspaper. The data was gathered during the period between 2008 and 2016 where there was media hype regarding the Zimbabwean political and economic instability. During this period in question Zimbabwe has had a constant phase of bad political and economic instability. Therefore, this publication is very crucial as it comes at a moment when Zimbabwe is undergoing its worst political and economic phase in years.Even though Zimbabwe's political situation seems to be unstable, the current government is adamant that the situation will get better before its its next presidential election in 2018. In 2009 the two political parties Zanu- PF and MDC forged a Unity Government, the end of the unity- government triggered power struggles within both Zanu- PF and MDC, which made Zimbabwean politics even more complicated. Consequently, the current study made use of thirty editorial articles ranging between 900 tokens to 1200 tokens. All the files gathered were transferred into text files so that they could be easily transferable into Antconc 3.2.1, which is a concordance software programme used in corpus linguistics to analyze written corpora. The lexical features that were identified in the study were analyzed through the use of Fairclough5s (1989) Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) whilst grammatical features such as plurality, person and tense were analyzed through the use of Halliday5s (1985) Systemic Functional Grammar. The findings from this study revealed that journalists of the articles from The Zimbabwe Herald Online newspaper made use of linguistic and grammatical features that were meant to maintain Zanu- PF ideologies whilst corpus from The Zimbabwean Independent Online newspaper revealed the use of linguistic features that favoured the ideologies of the MDC.
文摘Intentionality which reflects the writer's attitudes in his writing process is a very important standard for critical discourse analysis.It determines the language strategy of a text as well as its forms , textually or non-textually.And it influences the effect of the discourse communication.News reports usually have a strong intentionality.Analyzing the language of a certain piece of news report may reveal its intentionality.
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Critical discourse analysis(CDA) can help people better understand the subjective view and the hidden ideology in a news discourse. Based on M.A.K. Halliday's theory of transitivity and classification, this essay analyzes 3 reports from The New York Times and finds that despite how news reports may seem objective, every report contains the author's own opinion he/she tries to convince the readers. Special attention needs to be paid when we come across news discourse and we shouldn't let the hidden ideology in the reports manipulate our own viewpoint toward this world.
文摘The news,a special form of discourse,can easily influence people's emotion and evaluation.Although its characteristics require the reported messages to be objective and fair,there is no absolute objectivity.This paper aims to conduct a systematic analysis of finite modal operator and modal adjuncts under the framework of Halliday's systemic-functional grammar.The linguistic data is drawn from two pieces of news reports on hand-foot-mouth disease in English and Chinese.Both qualitative and quantitative research methods are adopted to discover the difference as well as similarity between the two languages with regards to the realization of modality.
文摘To find out different discourse features of these two different news reports and different ideologies reflected in the these two news reporting,Fairclough’s three-dimensional model of critical discourse analysis is adopted as the basic theoretical framework.And a contrastive analysis of news reports concerned with Huang Yan Island dispute from Reuters and Xinhua is carried out.The data of this article is collected from the official website of Reuters and Xinhua respectively,including one news report on Huang Yan island dispute from Reuters and two news reports from Xinhua.By comparing and analyzing the news resources reporting mode,the hidden political,historical and cultural ideologies behind the news discourse can be exposed.And Fairclough’s three-dimensional model of critical discourse analysis is an useful tool for interpreting the news reports to explore the hidden ideology.
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 paper makes a study on the significance of theme and its application in discourse analysis.Through the analysis of a news report from The New York Times,the author deeply discusses the importance of theme in the process of discourse analysis.
文摘Modality is used to express subjective judgment as well as the speaker’s opinions and attitudes.This paper aims to analyze the reporters’orientation reflected by linguistic modal expressions in English news reports from the perspective of Systemic-Functional Grammar,especially from the perspective of type,value,orientation and polarity.
文摘Based on the neologism in the broadcast news reporting, this paper will introduce different kinds of the most frequently used words today, including the extended meanings of the conventional words and new words created by word formation.
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？
