英语论文网

Chapter One Introduction 

Most of our social, political knowledge and understanding about the world may be derived from news reports, because they provide the readers with some up-to-date information  about  various  happenings  both  at  home  and  abroad.  Although  news reports require maximum consistency with the facts, in the case of news reports on political issues, it is not true. They are embedded with particular ideologies and power relation. Critical discourse analysis (henceforth CDA) serves as an instrument to show familiarized ideological meanings and reveals how ideology and discourse influence each other. This thesis aims at finding out how ideology and language are interrelated in  the  United  States  (U.S.)  and  the  Republic  of  Korea  (ROK,  South  Korea)’s  20 English news reports on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, North Korea) third nuclear test. The following chapter will present the research background, research objectives, its significance as well as the arrangement of the thesis. 

1.1 Research Background 
CDA  has  profited  from  the  contemporary  development  in  pragmatics,  social theory, and psychology. During the last 40 years, CDA has achieved fast development. Many linguists conduct critical analysis on different discourses from multidisciplinary aspects and search for the connection between discourse, ideology and society, which means to examine how language expresses power relation and ideology, or how the latter influences language use. Briefly,  CDA  is  a  sort  of  theoretical  framework  and  research  methodology applied  in  discourse  analysis,  which  connects  language  and  language  use  with ideology.  Western  scholars  like  Fowler,  Fairclough  and  van  Dijk  are  the representatives in this field. CDA holds that the linguistic structures in discourses are not selected randomly, but are carefully chosen by the writer according to his standpoint and communicative purpose. Discourses are possibly loaded with ideological meanings at every level of the linguistic structures. The ideological meanings can influence and sometimes even determine  the  attitudes  of  the  readers  towards  the  specific  issue.  However,  these ideological meanings in discourses are usually implicit to the readers. So CDA is used as  an  instrument to  uncloak  these  familiarized  ideological  meanings  to  reveal  the relationship between discourse and ideology.  
........

1.2 Research Purpose and Significance  
By adopting the three-dimensional model of CDA and transitivity, modality and thematic choice of systemic functional grammar (SFG), this thesis selects the U.S. and South Korea’s 20 English news reports on North Korea third nuclear test. The main purpose  of  this  thesis  is  to  investigate  how  the  U.S.  and  South  Korea’s  different ideologies  and  values  revealed  in  English  news &nbs本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。