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1、ClassifiedIndex:U.D.C:CODE:10075NO:20090560ADissertationfortheDegreeofM.ArtsACriticalDiscourseAnalysisofNewsConcerningChina’sEconomicGrowthinTheNewYorkTimesCandidate:Supervisor:AcademicDegreeAppliedfor:Specialty:University:DateofOralExamination:ChenAihuaProf.ZhengYueMasterofAr
2、tsEnglishLanguageandLiteratureHebeiUniversityMay,2012AbstractAbstractOriginatinginthe1970s,CriticalDiscourseAnalysis(abbreviatedtoCDA),whichfocusesoninvestigatingtherelationshipamonglanguage,ideologyandpower,aimstobringhiddenideologiestothesurfacethroughdetailedlinguisticanalysi
3、s.Asasiteofpowerstruggleandideologymanipulation,newshasalwaysbeenthefocusofstudieswithinthefieldofCDA.However,abriefreviewshowsthatmostofthepreviousstudiesfocusonpolitical-relatednewsornewsonsuchsensationaleventsaswar,disasterandsports,whileeconomy-relatednews,whichisconsideredt
4、obemoreneutralwithreliablefigures,hasnotbeengivenenoughattentionrightnow.Recently,someresearchershavebeguntoconductingstudiesconcerningeconomicnewsundertheguideofCDA.However,theuniversalityofgainedfindingsstillneedtobefurtherprovedbymoreresearchesduetothelimitationofCDAaswellast
5、heon-goingdevelopmentoflanguageandbroadsocialcontexts.Hence,onthebasisofpreviousresearches,thepresentresearchtriestoapplydifferentanalyticaltoolstoinvestigatetherelationshipbetweenlanguageandideologyreflectedinnewcorpus.Theauthorhopesthatthefindingscancorroborateandmakemutualcom
6、plementwithexistingresearches.Inthissense,thepresentresearchhaschosennewsconcerningChina’seconomicgrowthinTheNewYorkTimesasresearchobjectsoastoexplorewhethertherearesomeideologicalmessagesbehindtheselectednewssamples?Iftheanswerispositive,howislanguageinthesamplesemployedtoserve
7、forthepurposeofideologyinvestment?Whatarethepossiblefactorscontributingtosuchkindofaconstructionofthesenewsdiscourses?Inordertoanswertheseresearchquestions,thepresentresearchhasanalyzedthesamplesfollowingFairclough’sthree-dimensionalframeworkstagebystage.Afterthesystematicanalys
8、is,theanswerstotheproposedresearchquestionsbeco