| Taking the news about the incidents happened in Lhasa from March, 14th as the examples, we will make news discourse analysis with the theories of linguistics, journalism and psychology to find out the characteristics of news discourse and how to insert ideology in news discourse while keeping them objective and credible. In the analysis, we consider news as a speech act and news discourse as the methods of the speech act.This dissertation consists of six parts, four of which are the main part. The first chapter is introduction, introducing some important concepts, such as discourse, news, news discourse. And then generally present the history and studying status of discourse analysis and news discourse analysis home and abroad.As a general survey of news, the second chapter discusses the three parts of news, not as the combination of linguistic features, but a type of speech acts. The first part is the intention of the speech act. The second one is the interaction between news producers and news receivers. And the last but not least part is news discourse which is the methods of the speech act. The third and forth chapters are based on the examples of news about the incidents happened in Lhasa from March, 14th in half a month reported by People's Daily, New York Times and The times.The third chapter makes statistics and analysis of the methods to keep the news discourse objective and credible, that is to say, news producers should try to convince news receivers of the news discourse, with the help of some methods, including using neutral words, using numbers, etc.The forth chapter discusses the methods news producers to insert their ideology obviously or impliedly, including directly expressing the news producers'feelings and attitudes, nominalization, etc.The fifth chapter is the analysis of two cases. One is news about the speech of Hujintao talking about the incidents happened in Lhasa when meeting the prime minister of Australia, the other one is news about the gun battle between a police and a monk in Qinghai province. Chinese media and Western media reported these two affairs differently. Statistics and analysis are made on news headlines, words, contents, etc. |
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