| Language, which functions as a means of communication, develops sideby side with human society. It is also closely related to individual and social needs, so language is social. It is not what traditional linguistics claims that it is only a transparent medium for communication about the objective world, therefore, it gains more and more notice nowadays. Critical Discourse Analysis, a branch of instrumental linguistics, was first proposed by Roger Fowler, in the book of Language and Control. This linguistic model mainly formulates an analysis of public discourse. As we know, at present, with the development of modern society, news media plays a more and more important role in daily life. It shoulders the responsibility in two aspects: firstly, it can promote the communication, share information and strengthen the mix of the social culture; secondly, news media, in general, has the effect as agenda setup to social life. From this, it can be known that as a kind of public discourse, news media can affect and control people's ideologies and attitudes. Therefore, the research on news media language is an inevitable content. Nowadays, news media discourse has received particular scrutiny in the study of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). Since in CDA, discourse is termed as "language use", so during researching, not only the content in news media should be considered, but also the problems related to linguistic. That is why we should learn news media critically. Based on Halliday's Systemic- Functional Grammar (ideational, interpersonal, and textual functions), this paper tries to develop a theoretical framework for the analysis of news media discourse. The objectives of this study can be specified as follows: firstly, it is to critically review researches and theories available in the field of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), a critical discourse analysis of news media in particular; secondly, it is to develop a framework which analyzes aspects of ideology and social structure embedded in news media discourse through critical discourse analysis; from... |
