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University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China

ABSTRACT

Based on ideational, interpersonal, and textual metafunctions in systemic functional linguistics (SFL), a contrastive analysis is carried out on two same-topic news reports of Chinese and American main stream media. Two reports from the People’s Daily and CNN are analyzed in terms of the lexical-grammatical systems (transitivity, mood and modality, and theme) realizing the three corresponding metafunctions to compare Chinese and American media reports on the same event. Results show that the two reports deploy different transitivity processes, but indicate similarity in the uses of mood and thematic choices. There are also respective preferences for reporting the same-topic news: CNN focuses on the whole process of the incident, the report being relatively objective and fair without obvious emotional bias, while the report of People’s Daily is relatively comprehensive, analyzing the incident from various angles, and playing a positive role in guiding public opinion.

KEYWORDS

systemic functional linguistics (SFL), contrastive analysis, metafunctions, same-topic news reports

Cite this paper

Sino-US English Teaching, October 2022, Vol. 19, No. 10, 345-350 doi:10.17265/1539-8072/2022.10.002

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