Discourse Analysis On "People’s Commentary On Current Event" Column

Discourse Analysis is a relatively new field.Westerners first began to study,thensameone introduced European and American linguistic theory to the analysis ofChinese discourse. Entering the21st century, discourse analysis in China havevigorous development. Both from the depth and from the breadth,the study has madea great progress. Political texts analysis focus on theoretical analysis.The researchersextensively and deeply combined a variety of theory to research poltical texts,butapplied research on a class or a specific political texts are hard to see."People’sCommentary" of "People’s Daily" is a kind of political texts, it have adequate researchspace."People’s Commentary" column of "People’s Daily" comment on currenthighlights to find out the reasons in-depth nature or cited the impact and proposedcounter measures.It have extensive influence.Even comment on the same event, thearticle of "People’s Commentary" and "People’s Daily"’s other plates or othernewspaper commentaries have obviously different characteristics in communicativestructure, discourse structure,topic propulsion,discourse strategies. In terms ofcommunicative structure,the texts of "People’s Commentary" have so many uniquecommunicative intention,communicative body and communicative context. In termsof discourse structure,the texts of "People’s Commentary" mainly uses"Current-Situation--in-depth analysis---Solutions"type.It’s easy to achieve a fullanalysis of the negative appraisal objects. In terms of topic propulsion,"People’sCommentary" mainly use the ways of tree extention,split extension, polymericextension and topic keeping. In terms of micro structure,cohesive devices of "so" and"this way" hang the discourse closely together,form a compact structure. Cohesivedevices of "only... before..." shows the attitude of the urgency to solve the problemand expect more attention from people."People’s Commentary" discourse mainly taketwo discourse strategies.The first strategy is Lexicalization,it use a word or phrase toreplace the entire event to facilitate the review and have a high target. The secondstrategy is discourse markers,"before/recently" introduce the background events andmark the beginning of the first part of the whole discourse,so that can make a clearstructure and division of work.The surface of discourse depends on the the discourse underlyingfactors,People’s Commentary’s unique derived from the underlying factors,such as communicative intention,communicative body and communicative context. From thebottom to the surface,this is a right order of any text construction.Therefore,summarize the discourse underlying factors and reveal the nature help us reveal thecharacteristics of the "People’s Commentary" discourse.I collect182discourse,including180,000words.Analyzing various aspects of the"People’s Commentary" discourse, from the deep to the surface and derive theorganization of discourse reversely. This article also assess wether the discourseexpress meaning reasonable and fully or not.we hope the research can not only helpthe reader and listener improve language comprehension and reading level, but alsoprovide writing skills for writers to write political essay.