A Critical Discourse Analysis of Major Media Reports about the Issue of the China-US Trade

Abstract

Nowadays, CDA is widely used in news discourse because it can help people understand the implicit viewpoints in news discourse and grasp the true situation of news reports. As the main form of news discourse, media reporting is good intertextuality for CDA. Therefore, this paper, based on the theory of CDA, tries to discuss the implication of major media reporting about the issue of the China-US trade, from which the genre of media reporting here is also analyzed.