Critical Discourse Analysis of American News Reports on South China Sea Issue

Critical discourse analysis(CDA) is an influential and useful approach to comprehend a discourse, which helps reveal the embedded ideology within the discourse. According to the CDA and systemic-functional grammar, this paper tries to analyze two American news reports on South China Sea issue and to explore the hidden ideology behind them.     

The impact of Child Development Associate training on the beliefs and practices of preschool teachers

This study examined the impact of Child Development Associate (CDA) training on the beliefs and practices of early childhood teachers who did not have college degrees or early childhood college coursework. Preschool teachers who were enrolled in CDA classes (n = 76) and a comparison group of teachers (n = 50) completed two surveys of beliefs and practices. Repeated measures Multivariate Analyses of Variance indicated that the CDA training teachers decreased the amount they endorsed beliefs and practices that contrast with Developmentally Appropriate Practice over time more than the comparison teachers. Results suggest that CDA training can be an effective means of increasing the developmentally appropriateness of beliefs and self-reported practices of early childhood teachers, which past research suggests will ultimately impact classroom quality.     

批评转喻分析理论对英语语言学教学的启示

在批评认知语言学理论框架下,批评性语篇分析可与转喻融合成批评转喻分析理论。这种理论是一种认识语言、思维与社会关系的重要途径,对英语语言学教学有很大的启示意义,对于培养学生的宏观、微观思维与批判性思维方式有一定的指导作用。     

《华尔街日报》对我国应对新冠肺炎疫情的报道研究——基于语料库的批评性话语分析

《华尔街日报》借新冠肺炎疫情对我国进行种族歧视,恶意渲染人们的不满情绪,质疑我国数据的真实性和信息的透明度,片面关注和夸大我国在疫情应对中的问题,构建歪曲、偏离现实的拟态传播环境.为提升我国应对新冠疫情的国际传播力,我国应直面西方媒体,积极回应并主动出击,同时要优化传播手段,促进全民参与,从而讲好中国故事,传播好中国声...     

批评话语分析与积极话语分析:从解构走向建构

本文拟从定义、哲学理论基础、原则与方法等视角对批评话语分析和积极话语分析做简要的对比分析,以期探索更加有效的话语分析新途径。     

Political Speech and the Realization of Modern State-Ruling --A Discourse Analysis on Obama＇ s Speech in Colorado

政治演讲已经成为资本主义民主制度下美国政府实现其现代国家统治权的一个重要途径。在演讲中。演讲者创造性地重组旧的话语类型,解决话语生产者与社会现实、公众及不同利益团体之间的关系问题。政治演讲确立了新的话语秩序和类型,进而建构了新的社会和权力关系。文章应用批判话语分析的方法分析了美国总统奥巴马为了推进医疗改革在科罗拉多州大章克中市中央中学发表的演讲。奥巴马通过列举数字、代词选择和排比修辞力图达到树立政府形象,批驳反对力量,巩固和扩大社会基础。改善政府和受众关系及改变受众意识形态的目的,这些目的的实现,是美国政府实现其现代国家统治权的重要保障。     

Fish out of water: refugee and international students in mainstream Australian schools

In this paper, the authors combine Pierre Bourdieu's concept of hysteresis (the ‘fish out of water’ experience) with the discourse historical approach to critical discourse analysis (CDA) as a theoretical and analytical framework through which they examine specific moments in the schooling experiences of one refugee student and one international student, both enrolled in post-compulsory education in Australian mainstream secondary schools. We examine specific moments – as narrated by these students during interviews – in which these students can be described as ‘fish out of water’. As such, this paper takes up the concerns of researchers who call for an examination of the lived geographies and the everyday lives of individual students in mainstream schools. We find that our students' habitus, conditioned by their previous schooling experiences in their home countries, did not match their new Australian schools, resulting in frustration with, and alienation from, their mainstream schools. However, we also note that schools, too, need to adapt and adjust their habitus to the new multicultural world, in which there are international and refugee students among their usual cohort of mainstream students.     

Olympism and the Beijing Olympic Torch Relay in the British and Chinese Media Discourses: A Comparative Study

Olympism has the potential to establish a common ground for tolerance of, and respect for, diversified ideologies. This is indispensable for humanity in the modern world. The 2008 Torch Relay and its representation in the press offers a unique window through which to examine the discursive construction of Olympism by and through the media within the historical and sociopolitical contexts associated with the Games. This paper firstly focuses on the historical development of the Olympic ideology (Olympism) along with the respective mainstream ideologies in China (harmony) and Britain (liberalism). It then attempts to explore the discursive construction of Olympism in the 2008 Torch Relay news coverage by the British and the Chinese media through applying the elaborated analytical approach – corpus-based CDA. This study demonstrates that there are contrasting expressions of Olympism in the media discourse. At a deeper level, this social practice is revealed to be dominated by the mainstream ideologies of the hosting and participating nations that have been entrenched throughout history. The involvement of China in Olympic history and the relevant sociopolitical events surrounding the 2008 Torch Relay are explored. The conclusion reinforces its significant contribution to the study of Olympism in the new era.     

多元与偏见:西方媒体北京冬奥会报道中的中国国家形象话语表征

以批评话语分析为理论框架,以语料库分析为研究方法,分析西方媒体的北京冬奥会报道对中国国家形象的话语表征及意义建构。研究发现,西方媒体对于北京冬奥会的话语表征呈现出“一体多面”的叙事特点,但仍延续了西方媒体对中国国家形象话语表征的负面倾向;西方媒体惯常对中国国家形象的话语建构与报道框架略有改观,议题设置更加多元,客观性和积极性的话语比例有所提升;经济发展是助推国家形象塑造的强大动力,有利于促进中国国家形象有效塑造与传播;西方意识形态偏见及对中国崛起的“霸权焦虑”成为阻碍中国在国际体育中进一步提升话语权和推进国家形象对外传播的制约性因素。西方媒体话语中的中国国家形象,是客观与主观、真实与虚构的综合呈现。打破西方固有偏见,在形象建构的权力博弈中占据主动,是亟待探讨的重要问题。