| Critical discourse analysis (CDA) regards language as a social practice, a reflection of the power relationship between the text producer and the receiver. It provides a new perspective for the discourse analysis by revealing the unequal relationship that is naturalized in the text. The main purpose of critical discourse analysis is to shed light on the critical language awareness and help people better understand the ideology behind the discourse.The relation between language and ideology is dialectic: the use of language reflects ideology on the one hand and acts upon ideology on the other hand. Ideologies are invested in different levels in the news studied. Charged words, the selection of the transitivity processes, mode and modality in the term of interpersonal function, theme in terms of textural function all are the application of the ideologies, all of which serve the purpose of the news addresser. Thus, the critical study of language can possibly make the readers aware of the ideology-ridden news language.Using the news of Shenzhou 5—China's first successful launch of manned spaceship as the subject of study, this thesis gives a critical discourse analysis on the ideology-embedded news. It adopts Halliday's systemic-functional grammar as the tool to describe text of the news, and then turn to social background to explain the production of the news text and the correlation between social factors and language features, which follows Fairclough's three-dimensional framework. |
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