A Contrastive Analysis of News Reports on Current Affairs from the CDA Perspective. With Coverage on Diaoyu Islands Issue as an Example
A Contrastive Analysis of News Reports on Current Affairs from the CDA Perspective. With Coverage on Diaoyu Islands Issue as an Example
Author(s): Jin-De Huang, Li-Bing WangSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fundaţia »Societatea Civilă« (FSC)
Keywords: critical discourse analysis; Sino-Japan dispute over Diaoyu Islands; China Daily; The Washington Post; ideology
Summary/Abstract: Critical Discourse Analysis is a kind of analysis which seeks to discover the relationship among power, ideology and discourse. Recently, the growing Sino-Japanese dispute over the Diaoyu Islands, causing widespread concern at home and abroad. This thesis analyzes the two news reports chosen from China Daily and The Washington Post on Sino-Japan dispute over the Diaoyu Islands .The author applies Fairclough's three-dimensional model and Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar to conduct a critical discourse analysis of the news reports on Sino-Japan dispute over the Diaoyu Islands.
Journal: Sfera Politicii
- Issue Year: XXII/2014
- Issue No: 178/2
- Page Range: 54-65
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English