| In the information society, news report is one of the most important ways for information communication. During the process of communication while news is regarded as a source of information, the cultural background, ideology which are carried in news and the related news inclination are always seen to be important content for the study of journalism. While expressing the content of news, language as the carrier of information indirectly transfers the attitude of media toward the news event and the way that media dealing with its relationship with its audience. Therefore, the research on journalistic language is not only the inevitable task for the study of mass communication, but also the work for the study of linguistics.The critical study of news within the category of linguistics mainly focuses on the active or negative effect which journalistic language brings to the audience during the process of news report. Two characters of news, acceptability and credibility are concerned in news report. Despite the general logic of news event itself, the study of linguistics and mass communication as two efficient research tools can define a reasonable limit in the relationship between the acceptability and credibility, which may lead to the audience's unpromoted judgment of news acceptability and credibility and finally realized the critical understanding of the opinions and inclinations in news report.In the analysis of linguistics, because of the sociality of language, critical linguistics as a concrete analytic tool can express the characters of new language and interpret the significance of such linguistic characters in texts. Critical linguistics derives from M.A.K Halliday's functional grammar which stresses me connection between language and social circumstance. Therefore, the critical linguistics borrows some research models of functional grammar for the social study of language.The functional grammar clarifies the transferring mechanism of language and ideology. The code, namely, the choice for the meaning of vocabulary determines the category of register that influences the appearance of metafunctions directly, which leads to the creation of ideational, interpersonal and textual functions of metafunctions. During such a process, the ideology and cultural features of the speakers are imposed into the metafunctions of language with die linguistic code and interpreted with the ideational and interpersonal functions. The style of the interpretation can be described with the transitivity analysis and lexical structure in functional grammar.In transitivity analysis, the relationship between the objective bodies in language (the participant, circumstance and results, etc) and the expression of the action in language (the forms of predicate in a sentence) is the emphasis to be studied. In the theory of functional grammar, the forms of predicate of a sentence are seen as process, action and state. Meanwhile, the nature of predicate can be summed up as material, verbal and mental. The connection of the forms and the nature of predicate creates the dual roles of predicate that endow the participants with two equal identities: the meaning identity and syntactic identity. The choice of meaning, namely, the code is thus expressed in the sentence. In such a sentence, the syntactic identity changes with the syntax transformation, but the meaning identities of the participants always remain stable. Syntax transformation is the finalperformance of transitivity of sentence, which can be described as two forms: passive voice and nominalization.Besides the transitivity analysis, lexicalization can also transfer the ideational function of language through lexical structure involving in two forms: relexicalization and over-lexicalization.Modality and speech acts are two main ways to express the interpersonal function.The ideational and interpersonal functions are used to analyze and express the difference of the linguistic features of news text with the other literal styles, of which the significance ca... |
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