Analysis of Attitude Resources in News Headlines of the Economist From the Perspective of the Appraisal Theory

• 作者: Ni Jincheng WANG Yu
• 来源期刊: 美中外语:英文版
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: the appraisal theory news headlines analysis of attitude resources
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（6）
• 页码范围: 195-201
• 页数: 7页
• 分类号: H31

摘要

The news headline is one of the most important parts of news.Based on the appraisal theory in systemic functional linguistics,the present study selects 30 headlines of the Economist’s reports on China in 2018 as the research objects.By giving annotations of the news headline according to its evaluative resources,this paper investigates what attitude the foreign mainstream media adopt when reporting Chinese news events.The statistical results show that most of the news headlines bear rich resources of valuation,and most of them bear negative attitudes rather than positive attitudes.Therefore,it is concluded that foreign media pay more attention to the problems in China’s development process,so they often directly use negative evaluative vocabulary when reporting Chinese events.To some extent,the negative evaluation resources also confirm the character of self-worship of the westerners.Therefore,theoretical and practical implications of this study are drawn for us to better understand foreign news headlines.