A Critical Discourse Analysis of News Discourse —Based on Catastrophic Journalism from Chinese and Western Media

Abstract News discourse is an important means of acquiring information and entertainment, and people all hold that news discourse is neutral, accurate and real。 However, critical discourse analysis researchers question this kind of thoughts and find that language has never been an objective and transparent medium through extensive research, because the use of language tend to be determined by the ideology of speakers and this phenomenon is ubiquitous in language。 Critical linguistics, also called critical discourse analysis (CDA), mainly reveals the ideology news discourse deliver and explains the relations between ideology and power that are hidden behind news discourse。 Based on Halliday’s systemic functional grammar, this paper tries to reveal the hidden ideology of several catastrophic reports by China Daily and The Times from the perspective of transitivity, modality and ideology。 Based on the contrastive analysis of one disaster sample, it is indicated that Chinese and American media have different tendencies when reporting these catastrophic reports and news discourse are not so objective and fair like the public has imagined。 This paper also hopes that the readers could receive a deep understanding of news discourse and further improve the consciousness of critical analysis。87096

Key words: news discourse; critical discourse analysis; catastrophic reports; ideology

新闻语篇的批评性话语分析——以中西媒体对灾难性新闻报道为例

摘要新闻语篇是人们获得信息和娱乐的一种重要方式，大众对新闻语篇的认识基本上都是中立的、准确的、真实的。而批评性话语分析学者却对此提出质疑，经过大量研究他们发现语言从来不是客观透明的交际媒介，因为语言的使用往往是由说话者的意识形态决定的，并且这一现象普遍存在于语言中。批评语言学，又叫批评性话语分析，它主要揭露了新闻语篇传达的意识形态并解释了隐藏在新闻语篇背后意识形态和权力的关系。本文以韩礼德的系统功能语法为理论基础，通过《中国日报》和《时代杂志》报道的一篇灾难性新闻从语篇、话语实践和社会实践三个方面分析来揭露其隐含的意识形态。结论表明中美媒体在报道这些灾难性新闻时侧重点不同，分析表明新闻语篇并不像大众想象的客观公正。本文也希望通过此分析让读者对于新闻语篇有正确的认识，并提高大众的批评意识。

毕业论文关键词：新闻语篇；批评性话语分析；灾难性报道；意识形态

 Contents

Abstract in English I

Abstract in Chinese III

I。Introduction 1

1。1 Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and News Discourse 1

1。2 Significance of the Study 1

II。literature review 3

2。1 Studies Abroad 3

2。2 Studies in China 4

2。3 Limitations of Previous Study 5

III Theoretical Framework 6

3。1 Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar 6

3。1。1 The Ideational Function 6

3。1。2 The Interpersonal Function 7

3。1。3 The Textual Function 8

3。2 Summary 8