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Figure 3.1:AThree-Dimensional View of Discourse Analysis

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Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework................................14

3.1 Fairclough’s Three-Dimensional Model................................14

3.2 Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar......................16

Chapter 4 Research Methodology..................................22

4.1 Research Questions and Methods.................................22

4.2 Data Collection........................................23

Chapter 5 Results and Discussion....................................26

5.1 Description of the News Reports.................................26

5.1.1 Transitivity Analysis............................... 26

5.1.2 Lexical Choice...........................35

Chapter 5Results and Discussion

5.1 Description of the News Reports

At the first stage of description, this section will study the selected samples toreveal the linguistic features by adopting Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammarfrom the aspects of transitivity, lexical choice and modality.

5.1.1 Transitivity Analysis

As presented in the previous chapter, the ideational meta-function is realized bytransitivity. It is a basic semantic system that interprets the experience world as a set ofmanageable process types. Transitivity provides a crucially analytical tool for revealing thelinguistic features of the economics report, which can be divided into six processes. Baseson the different stands and views represented by different news reporters, they may choosedifferent reporting processes, that’s why it is necessary to disclose the hidden ideology through transitivity analysis. The number and percentage of the six processes selected bythereporters are clearlypresented as follow:

Table 5.1 Distribution of Processes in the Two Newspapers

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Chapter 6Conclusion

6.1 Major findingsThis thesis is a contrastive study of the economic news reports in China Daily andNew York Times about the “phrase-one” trade deal. Taking Fairclough’sThree-Dimensional Model framework as the theoretical foundation, this thesis adoptsthe Halliday’s systemic-functional grammar as the analytical tools, conducting a criticalanalysis of economic news reports in the two official newspapers, which aims to findout the hidden ideology embedded in economic news reports. Before making somefindings, it is necessary to mention the research questions before, as stated in thechapter 1. They are as follows:

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