The Narrative Analysis On The Reports Of Mine Disaster

The frequent occurrence of mine disaster is an irresistible problem in the modernist progress of China. The government is making progress in dealing with public incident, therefore, the mine disaster turns from a prohibited item to public news. In the recent years, the Chinese media improves greatly in public incident report, but the mine disaster report is still limited by the style.News is a kind of narrative, so is the mine disaster news. The analysis of mine disaster from the perspective of narrative is a good way of study. This thesis analyzes the narrative strategy and pattern of mine disaster news, and argues from the perspective of chronological deviations, focalization, and structure. The purpose is to find out the narrative pattern of mine disaster out of these strategies mentioned above.The first part of the main body discusses the phenomenon of chronological deviations and the second part emphasizes the results of using different ways of focalization. The analysis shows the reports of mine disaster have put more attention on officers than mine workers. The third part is about the narrative structure of the texts of mine disaster, which is divided into two small parts- article structure and style structure. This part mainly analyzes the texts of the characteristic Xinhua style and then sums up the narrative patterns and narrative strategies of Xinhua style, which has both a strong point and a defect.