TheResearchofContemporaryCriticalDscourseAnalysis英语专业本科毕业论文.docx

-  PAGE 14 - The Research of Contemporary Critical Discourse Analysis Introduction Critical Discourse Analysis, also called Critical Linguistics, Critical Language Study or Linguistics Criticism, it was proposed in 1979 by Hodge, Fowler, Trew Kress, et al in the book Language and Power. Critical linguistics has nearly 20 years’ history. It is on the philosophical basis of Frankfurt schools western Marxist, and it is a branch of western critical theory in linguistics respect. Critical linguistics is based on the theory of Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf’s language related theory and language determinism”, and Halliday’s Systemic-Functional Grammar (SFG) theory. It is one of the main tasks of critical linguistics to reveal the relationship between ideology and language, with appropriate linguistics theory analyzing public discourse. Halliday called it as autonomous linguistics which is outside instrumental linguistics”. Its status has universally acknowledged by linguistics schools. The research of contemporary Critical Discourse Analysis was developed in the late 1970s from Critical Linguistics, which was mainly created by Britain and Australia. In 1991, the term critical linguistic was compiled into Crystal’s Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, and it was explained in detail by Malmkjaer in Linguistics Encyclopedia. At present, more and more scholars are applying CDA to study news reports, especially political news reports, for example, Kou Jie’s Critical Discourse Analysis of Political News Reports in American and British Newspapers and Hilary Janks’s Critical Discourse Analysis as a Research Tool. There are also some scholars analyzing Sino-US relation by study economic news reports with CDA, but until now, no scholars study reports about Hu’s state visit to US with CDA. 2．Literature Review Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), as a method of Discourse Analysis, develops rapidly since it was proposed. However, it doesn’t have its own specialized theories