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A Pragmatic Explanation of English Disaster News Reports

Author: WangZuoZuo
Tutor: HeGang
School: East China Normal University
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: To catastrophe News reports Speech Act Angle
CLC: H313
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
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Abstract


Today, the disaster of human social life growing threat , and thus inevitably by the extensive attention . The news of the disaster , its reported disaster events have a tremendous negative effect in everyday life and research areas have become the focus of attention and research . In the field of linguistics , disaster news , mainly from the perspective of the Stylistics and Critical Linguistics to study . This paper attempts to break through the traditional mode , trying from a pragmatic point of view , the use of speech act theory and perspective choice theory , \News reported dynamic analysis . News reports as related to one of the news reports and readers reported behavior , and that the media through news reports are usually implemented three types of speech acts : behavior of locutionary , illocutionary acts and perlocutionary acts . Illocutionary act is the intent of the news media to transmit information to the reader . This article is based on the observation and analysis of the corpus , trying to answer the following three questions : 1 ) What types of speech acts disaster news reports ? 2 ) disaster news reports which reported perspective ? 3 ) disaster which features news reports ? Based on disaster news coverage in the wording and content analysis reported the following conclusions : the disaster reported that there are four types of speech acts and indirect speech acts ; disaster news reports are usually four different coverage perspective ; through further analysis found that , select language means and reported viewing angle to pass out of a different intention , attitude and emotional state . Thus, the authors concluded the disaster reported three functions : social function , interpersonal and emotional function . This study will help journalists better understand and grasp the disaster news coverage , the transmission of information, in order to more effectively guide the reader or audience critically reading the news and analysis of discourse .

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