Critical Discourse Analysis of The Economist开题报告

 2022-07-30 14:49:17

1. 研究目的与意义

In the information era, thereexist some cases that people were misled by the public media. Theunderstandings of the public about the news partly ascribes to how the writers describethe news reports, which can sometimes be subjective. As increasingly importancehas been attached to the media, the great responsibility to pass on facts fallson the newspapers and magazines. Although claiming that it ensures a uniformvoice, The Economist appears to showinconspicuous emotion in news reports about China. This essay aims to uncoverthe divergent attitudes towards the column China The Economist expressed by Critical Discourse Analysis, as a methodof revealing the relation of language and power, which is specialized at figuringout the relationship of the concept of power, the concept of history, and theconcept of ideology. And it contributes to the disintegration of discoursecolonization and discourse hegemony and helps people discern China’s nationalimage shaped by The Economist reports.

2. 研究内容和预期目标

Deviatingfrom absolute objectivity inevitably, TheEconomist seems to express different attitudes towards news reports aboutChina, which is uncovered by Critical Discourse Analysis, a method of mediadiscourse analysis. This paper tries to conduct critical discourse analysis(CDA) on English news discourse by illustrating the China column of The Economist under Fairclough’sThree-Dimensional Mode. The emphasis is on the various kinds of disparate textsconcerning China to figure out how the magazine expresses its attitudes towardsChinese matters.

Outline

1Introduction

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3. 国内外研究现状

With the rapid development of science andtechnology, the process of communication and the expression of opinions haveevolved, driven by the social media. This brings enormous pressure for thejournalists and the news media that convey messages to the public.

Different journals may have quite varyingtones and voice, depending on the target customers, corporate culture, thewriting styles of the journalist, and most importantly the language patternsthey applied. Wang[王丹], Sun[孙铭徽], Xia[夏榕], and Duan[段妍](2016) figured out the reports aboutcalamities from China Daily and BBC differed from each other illustrated morethan twenty related passages concerning Malaysia 370’s accident, Ebola virus,the Syria issue. China Daily tends to apply active voice, explaining clearlythe subjects and objects of the event, while BBC prefers passive voice toemphasize the objects and to some degree obscure the subjects, which indicatestheir ideologies. Meanwhile, when it comes to vocabular selection, thedivergence also exists.

During the process of critical discourseanalysis, the three-dimensional analysis of Fairclough is populous. Althoughtwo essays focused on different issues—Wang[王敏] and Shi [史晓媛] (2017) explored the resignation news aboutDavid Cameron, and Chen [陈周琴] (2014) studied the description of themissing plane of Malaysia Airlines—both of them opt for the same theory thatdivided any language into three aspects—Text, Discourse Practice, and SocialPractice. Chen [陈周琴] (2014) dug out the national presses arealways under the influence of government according to the national interests.

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4. 计划与进度安排

This paper isgenerally divided into four parts. The first part gives a brief introduction,telling the research backgrounds, the significance of the essay, and themethodology, which also includes the summary of the previous studies of news discourseanalysis both at home and abroad. Secondly, it expounds the main theoryemployed in the essay- Fairclough’s Three-Dimensional Model with figuresif necessary. Then, it focuses on the critical discourse analysis of the newsreports concerning China in The Economist.According to the theory, articles about China will be analyzed in three aspects– description, interpretation and explanation. To be specific, the descriptionpart involves the text production, focusing on the transitivity, classificationand modality. The interpretation part consists of analysis on news source andanalysis on reporting modes. The explanation part touches on economic context,political context and socio-cultural context. Finally, the conclusion partconsists of contributions and limitations of the essay. It hopes to assistreaders in seeing clearly the ideological meaning concealed in The Economist.

5. 参考文献

Bouvier,G. amp; Machin, D. (2018) Critical Discourse Analysis and the challenges andopportunities of social media, Review ofCommunication, 18(3), 178-192, doi: 10.1080/15358593.2018.1479881

Fairclough, N. (2001) Critical discourseanalysis as a method in social scientific research, In R. Wodak, amp; M. Meyer(Eds.), Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis (pp. 122-136). London: SAGEPublications Ltd.

Koller,V. (2005). Critical discourse analysis and social cognition: evidence frombusiness media discourse, DiscourseSociety 16(2), 199-224. doi: 10.1177/0957926505049621

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