Abstract:In society, the influence of media is significant. Newspaper is one of the most traditional media that maintain substantial readers. In the UK, newspapers can be classified into three types, national senior newspaper, tabloid newspaper and local newspaper. In order to improve the appealing power of news and reports, newspapers will try all means, such as to be negative, unpredictable or noticeable etc.. The objective of this case study is to verify the concept that the newspaper language should always be neutral. Therefore this study focuses on the text reproduction and ideological construction in discourse analysis of scare story reports in UK newspaper. Based on the literature about discourse practice, news values or bias in standpoints, a analytical framework has been set up. The news about nuclear fears is chosen as a case study to test whether the language features such as negative, exaggerative and distortive are frequently used in the scare stories.
Key Words: discourse analysis; Nuclear fears; text reproduction; ideological construction; scare story; language features
摘要:媒体对社会有很大的影响。报纸是传媒界最为古老的产物，一直以来拥有着大多数的读者群众。在英国，大型的纸媒体分成三大种类：全国性高级报纸、全国性通俗报纸和地方性报纸。一些报刊媒体为了提高新闻报道的阅读价值，制造出负面和不可预测的谣传来吸引读者。本课题研究的目的在于检验新闻用语的客观性。本论文将从文本再现和意识形态构建两方面分析英国报刊的灾难性新闻报道。以下结合过去学者对话语实践，新闻价值和媒体偏见几个方面建立本文的研究框架。选取“核恐惧”为题的新闻报道进行研究，验证在灾难性报道中是否存在负面，夸张和失真的言语。
关键词：话语分析；核恐惧；文本再现；意识形态构建；灾难报道；语言特征点
