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Discourse Analysis Of Media Reports In Fortune Ranking

Posted on:2021-02-17Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J W WuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2428330629985164Subject:Communication
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As the information of the times,the wealth ranking has made an inventory and listing of many effective information.In addition to combing the data of the list,the news reports on the list also convey multiple information such as the experience,industry change and development,market environment and social consciousness form of the list characters,master the leading position and guide the public in the list culture constructed.Based on the theories of discourse theory,critical discourse analysis and Halliday's systemic functional linguistics,this paper takes the media reports of fortune rankings as the research object.The author searches the famous rankings at home and abroad in search engines for the titles related to fortune,such as "Forbes" "Fortune" "Fortune 500" "Rich list",according to the order of time and heat,randomly selected 100 media reports related to the ranking list as the corpus of text discourse analysis.This paper uses three-dimensional model of Fairclough's critical discourse analysis to build the research framework.First of all,a systematic text statistics is carried out on the sample high-frequency vocabulary,lexical features,mood,language style,etc.;then,the clear intertextuality and inter textual intertextuality of the ranking media reports are discussed,It illustrates the use of direct speech,indirect speech,discourse presupposition,negation and metadiscourse,and analyzes the constructive intertextuality from the perspective of topic,single-phase related genre and colloquial style.Finally,it analyzes the social practice of news discourse and the constructive function of the text,It includes multiple social functions such as stabilizing discourse order,constructing social identity,guiding public opinion direction,and establishing belief system.Through a series of discourse analysis,we can find the rules of the text and the culture of the list constructed by the use of discourse in the media reports of the wealth ranking,and its functional value in social practice.From the perspective of discourse theory of communication,this paper explores the thoughts,ideologies and hidden discourse power behind the wealth ranking report.
Keywords/Search Tags:wealth ranking, critical discourse analysis, discourse power
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