School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance, Shanghai, China.
Faculty of Management Sciences, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan.
J Psycholinguist Res. 2022 Jun;51(3):455-472. doi: 10.1007/s10936-021-09809-9. Epub 2021 Sep 9.
Critical discourse analysis aims to explore the dialectical relationship between discourse and ideology. Based on psycholinguistic research, this paper analyzes the Chinese and American media's news reports and comments on the COVID-19. It aims to expose the hidden psychological messages and ideologies behind the words. The corpus in this paper is mainly from the official media of China Daily and Time from December 2019 to January 2021 in China and the United States. This paper uses Wang Zhenhua's Appraisal Theory and Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar as tools to make a comparative analysis of the corpus. At the textual level, languages are classified and lexical choices are analyzed followed by the analysis of the reporter's ideology after reviewing the motivation of the reporters of two countries. On the level of social responsibility expression and discourse, the paper analyzes the news reports, which are characterized by the combination of the reporter's views on the news. In the aspect of social practice, the social and cultural factors and background of news reports are analyzed. China calls for strengthening cooperation and exchanges with other countries to jointly fight the epidemic. The Chinese government has actively shared its experience and made corresponding contributions to international economic recovery. However, the US government shirks its responsibility by claiming that the effective implementation of Chinese methods and experience in China does not mean that it can achieve corresponding results in Europe and the US. At the same time, the United States provides medical supplies to other countries. This study hopes to help awaken readers' critical thinking and increase their awareness of the anti-control of mass discourse. At the same time, it is hoped that readers can view the epidemic from a more scientific perspective, understand the facts and reject the unwarranted panic. It will also help reshape Chinese and American discourse.
批评话语分析旨在探讨话语与意识形态之间的辩证关系。本文基于心理语言学研究，分析了中美媒体对 COVID-19 的新闻报道和评论，旨在揭示文字背后隐藏的心理信息和意识形态。本文的语料主要来自中国 2019 年 12 月至 2021 年 1 月期间的《中国日报》和美国《时代》的官方媒体。本文运用汪振华的评价理论和韩礼德的系统功能语法作为工具，对语料进行了比较分析。在文本层面上，对语言进行了分类，并分析了词汇选择，然后在回顾两国记者的动机后，分析了记者的思想。在社会责任表达和话语层面上，本文分析了新闻报道，这些报道的特点是结合了记者对新闻的看法。在社会实践方面，分析了新闻报道的社会和文化因素及背景。中国呼吁加强与其他国家的合作与交流，共同抗击疫情。中国政府积极分享经验，并为国际经济复苏做出了相应贡献。然而，美国政府却推卸责任，声称在中国有效的实施中国方法和经验并不意味着在欧洲和美国也能取得相应的结果。同时，美国向其他国家提供医疗用品。本研究希望帮助唤醒读者的批判性思维，提高他们对大众话语的反控制意识。同时，希望读者能够从更科学的角度看待疫情，了解事实，拒绝无端恐慌。这也有助于重塑中美话语。
