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behind the business news should be understood critical ly. Also, it helps Chinese m ass media to know how to build the positiv e image of A IIB and to expand its influence in the world.
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CHAPTER II LITERA TURE REVIEW

In this chapter, major concepts related to the present research will be introduced. These major concepts are helpful to unders tand the theoretical fram ework and the whole research. Besides, the origin and development of critical discourse analysis will be reviewed both at home and abroad.

2.1 Definitions of Key Terms
News is packaged inform ation about new events happening som ewhere else; or, alternatively, news is that which the ne ws industry sells. Many scholars have given diverse kinds of definitions of news and studied it from various aspects such as journalistic perspective, linguistic perspective, sociological perspective, psychological perspective, and etc. B ennett (125) from journalistic perspective defines news as “information that is timely, relevant to the concerns of its audience, and presented in a form that is easy to grasp”. Traditionally, news is considered as a report, and reporters just cover the story, telling the public what is happening. According to Jamieson, news is selected or even created by people. That is to say, news is not the fact, but rhetoric messages influencing how audience perceives the events. In fact, Ja mieson’s definition to news is in accord with Fowler’s. Fowler (4) critically interpreted news to be a presentation of the world, not only soci ally but also politica lly influenced, with the opinion that news reveals the operati on of the society . In the present study , definition of news put f orward by Fowler will b e employed because Fowler’s definition is related to functions of the critical discourse analysis that is to reveal the ideologies hidden in the news language. In our daily life, news has been categorized into different parts, such as politica l news, cultural news and business news and so on. Business that refers to the activity of making money by producing or buying and selling goods, or providing services is one of the most important things in the whole world which is the main role playing in maintaining the econo mic balance everywhere in this planet. Therefo re, more and more pieces of news about business have been reported. In this paper, business news is considered as news re ports about an or ganization that produces, sells goods or provides a service, revealing the operation of the society and hidden ideologies. The journalists usually create the news through five “W s” (who, what, when, where, why) and one “H” (how). However , because of dif ferent kinds of reasons, news report is not just simple and clear stories, but it is always ambiguity, unclarity, discrepancy and cavity (Bell 66).
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2.2 Previous Studies on Critical Discourse Analysis Abroad
Since the late 1970s, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has turned into a novel research approach into news discourse, of fering a framework for the research of the news discourse eve