Title: A Systematic-Functional Analysis of BBC News Report
Abstract:Rising from a certain social culture, discourse means a unit for bearing some kind of cultural characteristics. Meanwhile, discourse means a process of a continual semantic preference. Discourse analy...Rising from a certain social culture, discourse means a unit for bearing some kind of cultural characteristics. Meanwhile, discourse means a process of a continual semantic preference. Discourse analysis can disclose the characteristics and patterning rules to further people's understanding. And systematic-functional grammar makes itself a typical tool in discourse analysis because of its good operability and practicability. This paper takes metafunction as its framework and exerts transitivity and thematic progression to analyze BBC's reports on 8.24 plane crash,with the aim to discover the characteristics and rules existing in the writing process of newspaper.Read More
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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