| Urumqi’s explosions happened at the morning market located at the North Street Park of Sayhagh District on May 22, 2014, which led to 39 innocent citizens died and 94 injured. This event causes wide attention, report and interpretation from Chinese and Western media.The theoretical frameworks of this paper are CDA and Fairclough’s three-dimensional model. Qualitative and quantitative analysis are used as research methods. This thesis makes a contrastive analysis of reported speech from three aspects, that is, reporting modes, news sources and reporting verbs in Chinese and Western news reports. The purpose of the present study is to reveal the same and different ideologies and values when the Chinese and Western media report the same news event. This thesis respectively chooses thirteen English news discourses from Chinese and Western mainstream mass media, including China Daily and People’s Daily from China, BBC and Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times from Western countries.By taking comparative analysis of reported speech in Chinese and Western news discourses, we find:Firstly, the result of statistic data is discussed. Concerning reporting modes, indirect speech accounts for the highest proportion in both Chinese and Western media. The frequency of direct speech and narrative report of speech act in Chinese reports is higher than that in Western reports, while Western media tend to use free direct speech. Both Chinese and Western journalists do not incline to employ free indirect speech. Considering news sources, the usage of specified source in Chinese media is more than twice as that in Western media which prefer to utilize unspecific source. Chinese media do not employ unspecified source which is relatively few in Western media. As for reporting verbs, both Chinese and Western media are fond of using neutral reporting verbs. Chinese reports adopt many positive reporting verbs; however, Western reports apt to apply negative reporting verbs.Secondly, the result of contrastive analysis of specific samples is concluded. About similarities, both Chinese and Western media admit the serious and devastating influence of this attack in Xinjiang, mention the panic and fear of people, sympathize the victims, and have the same attitudes to fight terrorism. Considering the differences, there are two aspects should be mentioned. On the one hand, they have different views about the reasons why this attack happened in Xinjiang; on the other hand, there are big differences on the attitudes and reflections for this violence. |
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