Abstract
Based on a report on Dr. Li Wenliang in the British mainstream BBC media under the epidemic of Covid-2019, this paper analyzes from three perspectives guided by Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar: transitivity, mood and personal pronoun. It is found that the material process appears most frequently which shows that the news reports mainly reproduce the event process. The second is the verbal process, which shows that news reports are good at making use of multi-channel speech sources to enhance the authority and objectivity of reports. The third is the relational process and psychological process, which reflects the subtlety of news report content and the concealment of attitude. This paper reveals the ideological direction implied in the news reports through seemingly neutral and objective reports, aiming at providing reference for readers in the process of reading Chinese and foreign political discourse.
Highlights
With the continuous spread of the Covid-2019 epidemic, such reports in foreign media are increasing
This paper reveals the ideological direction implied in the news reports through seemingly neutral and objective reports, aiming at providing reference for readers in the process of reading Chinese and foreign political discourse
Through systemic functional grammar analysis of BBC news, the author found that BBC is critical of Li Wenliang incident
Summary
With the continuous spread of the Covid-2019 epidemic, such reports in foreign media are increasing. In terms of these three kinds of meanings, he divided the functions of language into three meta-functions: interpersonal meta-function-ideational meta-function and textual meta-function These three meta-functions form the core of Systemic-Functional Grammar, which in Halliday’ s view, consists of systemic grammar and functional grammar. The corpus used in this paper comes from a news report titled “Li Wenliang: Coronavirus Killings Chinese Whistler Blower Doctor” published by BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) on February 8, 2020. This news is a report about the doctor Li Wenliang’s incident.
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