Netnews Discourse Analysis: A Critical Approach

With the advent of Internet age, the audience can enjoy more "autonomy" than from other media. In consequence, it is said that people can keep "clear-minded" before Netnews and ideology has been weakened, and will even disappear in Netnews. This paper refutes this point of view from two dimensions, i.e., from textual dimension and cognitive dimension. In textual dimension, special attention is paid in six perspectives, presupposition, personal pronoun, metaphor, classification, vagueness/preciseness, and news resource; while in cognitive dimension, two aspects are discussed, the production of Netnews by journalist and the interpretation of Netnews by reader. With the refutation, this thesis aims to show that ideology has been strengthened rather than weakened in Netnews; and hence, the critical language awareness of the audience should be enhanced to guard against the influence from negative ideology.