An Analysis Of The Ideological Differences Of News Reports On The Same Events By Chinese And Foreign Presses

News study is receiving more and more attention not only from linguistics but also from ordinary people because news plays a very important role in influencing and shaping people's viewpoint and ideology about a certain event. News takes various forms and as the Internet gains more popularity, website news attracts an increasingly growing number of readers. Therefore, my thesis is intended to provide a framework for analyzing website English news and its underlying ideology by analyzing pairs of specific news items on Chinese and Foreign news websites.The first chapter mainly presents a general introduction of previous studies on news and explains their limitation. Thus, the thesis proposes a new analytical framework of news, which comes from Norman Fairclough's three-dimensional framework and Halliday's systemic-functional linguistics.The second and third chapters give a more detailed introduction to the new analytical framework and carry out an analysis of news items on the same event with the application of the framework to explore the different ideologies in different news websites.The fourth chapter brings my innovative analysis of the news discourse. This chapter introduces some concepts from cognitive linguistics into discourse analysis and carries out an analysis of how readers comprehend the information in news reports. This original introduction from cognitive linguistics adds to the completeness of Fairclough's frameworkThe conclusion of my thesis is that news reports are not as unbiased and trustworthy as it is supposed to be. News reports are socially produced and constructed and therefore represent different ideologies. At the same time, news reports also help to reproduce ideology through influencing readers'cognitive process.