《纽约时报》中对华经济报道的批判性语篇分析_英语论文

A Critical Discourse Analysis of News Reports on Chinese Economy in New York Times

摘要

“批评性语篇分析”一词最早出现在福勒著作《语言与控制》一书中。作为跨学科的话语分析方法，批判性语篇分析主要在于剖析隐藏于语言之下的观点及看法，旨在透过表面的语言形态了解其深层次的社会意图及背景。近年来，批判性语篇分析引起了中国学者们的关注，他们开始着手于政治要闻的研究。

本文着手研究2016年《纽约时报》对华经济的相关报道。以韩礼德的功能语言学为指导思想，从及物性、分类、转换、情态等方面对其进行分析，目的是通过剖析其语篇的语言文字，揭露经济报道潜在想法与语言文字间的关系。

通过分析及研究发现，在各种政治集团及权利的驱使下，以客观公正为特点的经济新闻也暗含了各种意识形态。《纽约时报》所呈现的中国经济现状是不全面的。在给予读者真相的同时，通过各种不同的语言形式，字里行间地将中国经济的不稳定夸张化，也夸大中国经济不稳定所带来的全球化后果，借此塑造一个与事实相距甚远的中国形象并以此对读者产生潜移默化的影响。

由上述研究结果可以得出，读者在阅读报刊书籍的时候要注意训练自己的批判性思维，试着去领会其中隐藏的意识形态，以此来提升对语言文字的鉴赏能力；而中国政府应加强国际间的交流与合作，让外国记者有更多的机会了解中国，努力塑造一个新的中国形象。

关键词：批判性语篇分析；经济报道；意识形态

Abstract

The term “Critical Discourse Analysis” was first proposed in the book Language and Control wrote by Roger Flower. As an interdisciplinary approach, CDA makes great contributions to disclose ideological views hidden in all the kinds of discourse, and understand its deep social meanings and backgrounds by analyzing superficial language. In recent years, CDA has drawn great attention of Chinese scholars who start to focus on the analysis of political news.

The research object is economic news about China, selected from New York Times in 2016. According to Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics, the study delves into the economic news in the perspective of transitivity, classification, transformation and modality, in order to reveal the relationship between language forms and hidden ideological meanings by dissecting the contexts.

The study finds that economic news usually implicitly conveys different ideological meanings under the driving force of a variety of political groups and vanity. The reports taken from New York Times about China's economy is not comprehensive. It seemingly describes the truth of China's economy, but actually it exaggerates the instability of Chinese economy between the lines by various kinds of language forms. Also it overstates the global consequences caused by China's economy. To some extent, the reports try to shape a Chinese image which is far from the facts and exert a subtle influence on the readers.

Therefore, when reading newspapers and organization, readers should pay attention to training their critical thinking and try to understand the hidden ideologies, to improve the language ability of appreciation while the Chinese government should strengthen the international exchanges and cooperation, to create more opportunities for foreign reporters to understand China. Great efforts need to be made to shape a new image of China.

Key words: critical discourse analysis; economic news; ideology

Contents

I. Introduction.1

II. Literature Review4

  2.1 The Origin and Definition of CDA4

  2.2 Studies of CDA abroad.4

  2.3 Studies of CDA at home.6

  2.4 Summary.6

III.Theoretical Framework .8

   3.1 Halliday’s systemic-functional linguistics.8

   3.2 Some relevant key terms9

     3.2.1 Transitivity9           

     3.2.2 Classification.11

     3.2.3 Transformation12

     3.2.4 Modality13

IV. CDA on News Reports14

   4.1 Sources of News Reports and Background14

   4.2 Analysis of the News Reports14

     4.2.1 Transitivity14               

     4.2.2 Classification.18                 

     4.2.3 Transformation20

     4.2.4 Modality22

V. Conclusion 25  

Bibliography .27