A critical discourse analysis of the news on north korean missile launches
Trang 1I also wish to thank all my lecturers at Postgraduate Department, College of ForeignLanguages, Vietnam National University, Hanoi for their concern, lessons and support.My special thanks go to my colleagues and friends for their helpful comments and usefulmaterials.
I would like to express my gratefulness to my parents, my husband and my son whoseencouragement, expectation, and assistance helped me overcome all the difficulties infulfilling this paper.
Trang 2LIST OF TABLES
Table 1 Names for US-Japan coalition and North Korea in VOATable 2 Names for US-Japan coalition and North Korea in Nhan DanTable 3 Negativization of North Korea’s activities in VOA
Table 4 Positivization of the US- Japan coalition’s activities in VOATable 5 Lexicalization of North Korea’s activities in Nhan Dan
Table 6 Lexicalization of the US-Japan coalition’s activities in Nhan DanTable 7 Over-lexicalization of the North Korea’s missile launches in VOATable 8 Over-lexicalization of the North Korea’s missile launches in Nhan DanTable 9 Quotation patterns of news reports in VOA
Table 10 Quotation patterns of news reports in Nhan Dan
Trang 32 Scope of the research ……… 2
3 Aims of the research and research questions ……… 2
4 Methodology ………3
5 Background information ……… 4
6 Design of the research ……… 5
CHAPTER 1 – THEORETICAL BACKGROUND ……… 6
1.1 The history of Critical Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis ……… 6
1.2 Theories on Critical Discourse Analysis ………8
1.2.1 What is Critical Discourse Analysis ……… 9
1.2.2 Key notions of CDA ……… 9
1.2.3 Methodology of CDA ………11
1.2.4 Principles of CDA ……….12
1.3 Systemic Functional Linguistics and its role in CDA ……… 13
1.4 CDA in relation with Cultural Studies ……… 13
Trang 42.3.1 Analyzing headlines ……… 19
2.3.2 Analyzing full-text news reports ……… 20
CHAPTER 3 – DATA ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION ……… 21
1 A summary of the findings ……… 45
2 Suggestions for further research ……… 47
REFERENCES ……… 48APPENDICES