A Contrastive Analysis of News Reports on Current Affairs from the CDA Perspective. With Coverage on Diaoyu Islands Issue as an Example

Abstract

Critical Discourse Analysis is a kind of analysis which seeks to discover the relationship among power, ideology and discourse. Recently, the growing Sino-Japanese dispute over the Diaoyu Islands, causing widespread concern at home and abroad. This thesis analyzes the two news reports chosen from China Daily and The Washington Post on Sino-Japan dispute over the Diaoyu Islands .The author applies Fairclough's three-dimensional model and Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar to conduct a critical discourse analysis of the news reports on Sino-Japan dispute over the Diaoyu Islands.

Keywords

• critical discourse analysis
• Sino-Japan dispute over Diaoyu Islands
• China Daily
• The Washington Post
• ideology