| This thesis is a critical analysis on English news reports about "Chinese Dream" from America and Britain which are the representatives of western countries. In2013, Mr. Xi was elected as the new president of China and he put forward "Chinese Dream". Western news agencies have published a large number of review articles, in which the British and American English news reports are the representatives. For this new big political change, there have few people researching on the relative news reports both at home and abroad. Therefore, this thesis carries on a critical analysis of those relevant English news reports, aiming to excavate the hidden ideologies in news discourse and reveal the social causes.This thesis collects15English news reports as the research object from10western news media which belong to America and Britain, the typical representatives of western countries. The news reports all connect with Mr. Xi and "Chinese Dream" And this thesis employs Fairclough’s three-dimensional framework and Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics as theoretical basis to conduct a critical analysis on the news discourses.The findings prove that the news reports are not that objective. By using different linguistic devices, the15English news discourses sculpt an authoritarian image of China and implicitly convey the information that "Chinese Dream" is the best description of China’s wild ambition and it may be just a political tool of Chinese government to strengthen its power. All these information are connected with certain ideologies. Therefore, by analyzing those selected English news discourses, this thesis means to show how those western news agencies implicitly express their ideologies in news discourse, and hope the analysis can arouse people’s critical consciousness on news reading, dialectically seeing problems in western news reports. |
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