| Intertextuality is a term first coined by the French semiotician Julia Kristeva in the late 1960s. Since then, intertextuality has become one hot issue of literary theory and linguistics studies. As the primary means of information transmission, news permeates every aspect of social life increasingly. Political news discourse plays an important role in the whole news discourse. According to intertextuality theory, each discourse is an intertextual absorption and transformation of other discourses. In other words, a discourse and other discourses are closely related and depend on each other. Therefore, English political news discourse has more or less close intertextual relationship with surrounding discourse.According to Xin Bin's category of intertextuality, this thesis attempts to study intertextuality in English political news discourse within the framework of text linguistics. The author chooses ten English news reports on the March 14th event in Tibet from The New York Times and The Guardian and then makes an intertextual analysis of them. In the light of social context, this study also aims at finding the ideology hidden in English political news discourse, so as to improve news readers'sensitivity to language.It is found that there are lots of uses of specific intertextuality and generic intertextuality, with the former including reference, cliché, allusion, quotation, irony; and the latter including mixture of styles and mixture of genres. Among all the sub-categories of intertextuality, quotation is found to be used most frequently in all the data. These interextual devices are wildly used to support discourse producers'view so as to make English political news discourse more objective and more truthful. It can also arouse the mass's attention. It is further found that intertextuality and ideologies are not dissociable in the English political news discourse. News reports as the mass media strive for fairness and objectivity but eventually provide service for their interests group, that is, they can not get rid of ideologies in the process of making news. Some western news media often cover the truth of the facts for the interest of a certain interests group, whose English political news discourse is sure to embody ideology of the discourse producer who wants to establish himself as a kind of authority, and to make unwarranted accusations about other people. Discourse hegemony of those western news media of are reflected in these English political news discourses.In a word, this analysis has both theoretical significance and practical value. It can expand the knowledge and research of intertextuality theory and English political news discourse, and provide news discourse teaching with valuable references and improve foreign language teaching and English learning when putting its research findings into language teaching. |
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