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A Comparative Analysis of the Use of Metadiscourse in Chinese and English News Commentaries

Author: XiongYao
Tutor: HuangQin
School: Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Course: Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Keywords: Metadiscourse News Reviews Comparative analysis
CLC: H136
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
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Abstract


News review is the community on recent news events published remarks. It comes with a strong persuasive. In order to achieve the purpose of convincing the reader, the author will always take a variety of ways to enhance the persuasive discourse. Metadiscourse leads us to the proposition of how to organize the content, the projection of self, and establishing relationships with readers. It can not only help authors express their great views and attitudes, while guiding the reader a better understanding of discourse. Metadiscourse manifestations mainly through meta discourse markers to achieve, Dafouz in 2008 proposed a new classification standard meta-discourse, the paper in her classification, based on the study based on the actual selected corpus, made certain modifications , put forward their own theoretical framework. Metadiscourse mainly by discourse Yuan Yuan and interpersonal discourse markers discourse marker two classes. Discourse yuan discourse markers which includes logical marker, Series words, suggesting that word, the topic marker annotation words and language code word, interpersonal discourse marker element contains vague language, certainly mark the word, the word mark certificate source, attitude markers and interpersonal Marker. This analysis corpus mainly from China News and Pulitzer network of selected Chinese news commentary to analyze each 30 yuan discourse markers in Chinese news commentary in usage. Mainly around four questions: (1) Yuan discourse markers used in Chinese comments What are the characteristics? (2) Yuan discourse markers used in English in comments What are the characteristics? (3) Yuan discourse markers in English used in comments what similarities and differences? (4) The existence of similarities and differences between the reasons? results showed that: (1) a review in English, interpersonal yuan discourse markers discourse yuan more than the use of all discourse marker to use. (2) Dollar discourse markers in discourse, the logical language and the language code comments marked term is most frequently used markers in interpersonal discourse markers in dollars, is the most frequently used marker and relationships attitude Markup Language (3) Yuan discourse markers comments in English usage, there are some differences, these differences are caused by a variety. This paper aims to analyze Chinese news commentary Zhongyuan use of discourse markers to raise awareness of the yuan discourse understanding, strengthen the ability of the correct use of meta discourse, and ultimately to improve the writing skills of news comment.

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