A Genre Analysis of Editorial Discourse: A Case Study of US Media's Editorials Denouncing Donald Trump_英语论文

摘要

社论是一种新闻的特殊体裁，也是一种议论性文体，因为其对新闻事件带有评述的性质，重点在于使得读者信服社论所传递的观点。因为评论是基于某一新闻事件发出的，因而具有特定的情景语境。这个特定的语境又间接决定了社论特有的交际目的。本次研究选取了美国媒体于2018年8月16日宣战特朗普的社论为例，以Bhatia和Swales的体裁分析理论为框架，研究社论的情景语境、交际目的以及体裁结构，旨在通过研究分析语料库，探究如何构建此类语篇以达成其交际目的。研究发现这类社论三个必要语步及九个步骤，这个共同的宏观结构使得美国新闻媒体成功地向民众传达他们的心声。

关键词：社论  体裁分析  情景语境  交际目的    

Abstract

The editorial is a special genre of news as well as a kind of argumentative essay. Editorials set out to convince the readers the opinions that the writers hold for a specific news event. Since the comments are made for certain news issues, they are placed in particular situational contexts that determine the communicative purposes to some extent. The present study investigates ten editorials published on August 16, 2018 denouncing President of the United States, Donald Trump selected from the “war” between the media and President Trump. The analysis is carried out based on the genre theories put forward by Bhatia and Swales to study the situational context, the communicative purpose and the shared structure of this genre. The study has found that these editorials include three obligatory moves and nine steps. This shared structure enables the American news media to make their voice heard successfully. 

Key words: editorial  genre analysis  situational context  communicative purpose 

Contents

Chapter One  Introduction 1

1.1  Background of This Thesis 1

1.2  Purpose of This Thesis .1

1.3  Significance of This Thesis 2

1.4  Research Method of This Thesis 2

1.5  Structure of This Thesis .3

Chapter Two  Literature Review 4

2.1  Introduction 4

2.2  Genre Approaches to Discourse Analysis 4

2.3  Previous Studies on Editorials .6

2.3.1 Definition of Editorials 6

2.3.2 Objectives of Editorials .6

Chapter Three  Theoretical Framework .7

3.1  Introduction .7

3.2  Bhatia's Seven-Move Model for Genre Analysis 7

3.3  John M. Swales' CARS Model 8

Chapter Four  Genre Analysis of Editorial Discourse 10

4.1  Introduction 10

4.2  Situational Context Analysis and Communicative Purpose of Editorials 10

4.3  The Shared Move Structure of Editorials .12

4.4  The Language Features of Editorials .17

4.4.1 An analysis on Editorials at the Lexical Level from the Macro Perspective18

4.4.2 An Analysis on The Language Features of An editorial .19

Chapter Five  Conclusion 21

Bibliography

Appendices

Acknowledgements