| CDA, short form of Critical Discourse Analysis, is widely used in discourse analysis, aiming to uncover the ideologies hidden behind language. The CDA scholars show great interests in media discourse, especially political news reports.Nowadays, the business has come into one of the most significant factor in people's daily life. This thesis selects the seemingly objective business news as the analytical focus in the light of the research field of CDA. Employing both Halliday's Systemic Functional grammar and van Dijk's News Schema Theory, the author strives to analyze the English business news reports from the micro linguistic perspective and macro structural perspective by the means of combination of quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis. Due to the validity and reliability of the thesis, the author selects media samples from three elite newspapers, China Daily, New York Times, and Times respectively. The present thesis will analyze two business events—Sanlu Milk Scandal and Huiyuan's Juicy Deal as the media samples, with an aim to describe linguistic features of business news discourse, to explore the interactive relationship between news language and ideology and to provide a theoretical framework and practical reference to pioneer a new way for language workers to delve into news discourse.The thesis has six chapters, that is, the introduction, literature review, theoretical framework, data collection and case analysis (Chapter Four and Five), as well as the conclusion.Chapter One is a general discussion about the background of this study complete with the rationale, significance, and the research methods, giving a comprehensive view of the whole thesis.Chapter Two reviews the literature relevant to the present study including Discourse Analysis, CDA, and Media Discourse& CDA in a correct and objective way.Chapter Three elaborates the present research framework by a critical-contrastive approach, appealing to both Halliday's SFG and van Dijk's'news schema'theory,Chapter Four and Five strive to analyze two specific cases from micro and macro levels. Chapter Six summarizes the current research. While highlighting its major findings, the present author also points out shortcomings and insufficiencies of this research and offers some suggestions for future research on the topics in question.Throughout the analysis, the thesis has reached the expected aims. we can see that although the business news discourse, like other sub-variety of media discourses, is said or emphasized to be objective and transparent, it is inevitably influenced by people's ideologies. This also corresponds to CDA-- yet a view of language as a social construct, and vice versa, the role of language with its ways reflects society.The present thesis is a multi-disciplinary analysis, integrating linguistics with sociology, journalism, communicology, pedagogy and so on and so forth together. On one hand, it tempts CDA into the field of news teaching, especially business news writing and teaching, improving the language learners'critical reading capacity. On the other hand, as for the communicology perspective, while explanatorily analyzing the new phenomenon and new issues in business field, it is necessary and significant to relate the business issues with society, culture and so on, and then the comprehension of news discourse can be in-depth.
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