Language，Discourse and Ideology：critical Discourse Analysis of News Reports.pdf

1、Media discourse has received particular scrutiny in the study of critical discourseanalysis (CDA). The motivating principle behind the analysis is to explore ideology inlanguage, since in CDA, discourse is termed as 'lan

2、guage use'. Based on Halliday'sSystemic-functional grammar and Fairclough's three-dimensional critical discourseanalysis model, I have developed a theoretical framework for the analysis of newsreports, a special text typ

3、e of media discourse. An analysis of ten news reports of oneevent from different sources is carried out to exemplify and validate the framework Ihave proposed.The objectives of this study can be specified as follows: fir

4、st, to critically reviewresearches and theories available in the field of critical discourse analysis (CDA), acritical discourseanalysis of news reports in particular;second, to develop aframework which helps to analyze

5、aspects of ideology and social structure embeddedin news reports through critical discourse analysis; third, to propose ways which aimto foster in English learners a critical language awareness of news reports so as toma

6、ke readers or learners more aware of the investment of ideology and socialstructures encoded in such discourses.The result of critical analysis of news texts reveals that the framework I haveproposed is applicable in the