Cultural Differences In Chinese And American News Reports From The Perspective Of Critical Discourse Analysis

Based on Fairclough’s three-dimensional framework,this thesis selects 60 news reports on Trump’s executive order of banning TikTok from China Daily and The New York Times,and combines stylistics to analyze the above news samples from three perspectives,that is,text,discursive practice and social practice.This thesis aims to dig out the Chinese and American cultural differences and then explains the reasons for the differences.The data selected in this thesis come from the official website of China Daily and the Lexis Nexis news database,and the time span is from August 1^st,2020 to August 31^st,2020.This thesis applied the qualitative and quantitative research methods to analyze the frequency and distribution of language characteristics of the two media,and discuss the influence of various factors in social practice on the text.By analyzing the above data,this thesis aims to answer the following three research questions:1)What are the linguistic characteristics of news reports on TikTok from China Daily and The New York Times?What kind of cultural differences do they embody respectively?2)How are the cultural differences manifested in the texts?3)What are the reasons for the differences?The study found that there are similarities in textual features in China Daily’s and The New York Times’s reports on the TikTok ban,but significant differences exist in word length,focus,vocabulary application,news sources and reporting mode.It is not accidental that there are differences between Chinese and American reports on the same event,which is the result of a series of factors.Among them,the different cultural values and thinking mode,as well as the different institutional attributes of China Daily and The New York Times are the main factors.The research significance of this thesis lies in two aspects.Theoretically,this thesis combines Fairclough’s three-dimensional framework with stylistics,uses a contrastive method to analyze a latest event during the intercultural business communication process between China and the United States,and emphasizes the method of studying culture from linguistic analysis.To a certain extent,it enriches the study of critical discourse analysis.In practice,this thesis analyzes the cultural differences in news reports,which on the one hand helps readers to form a more objective and critical perspective,and on the other hand helps entrepreneurs fully understand the cultural differences between China and America,and then helps them better conduct cross-cultural business.