A critical discourse analysis of the news articles and reports about Diaoyu/Senkadu issues

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dc.contributor.author Yujie, Tan
dc.date.accessioned 2016-12-15T05:28:02Z
dc.date.available 2016-12-15T05:28:02Z
dc.date.issued 2016
dc.description.abstract The critical discourse analysis (CDA) is now a major tool for analyzing the news articles and reports. This paper uses CDA to analyze the news articles and reports concerning the Diaoyu/Senkaku issues. It aims to help English language teachers using CDA to create and improve the critical language awareness of students, and how discourse results from the social structure and power relations that serves discourse results from the social structure and power relations that serves different power groups. Through the analysis of articles of Diaoyu/Senkaku issues from Chinese newspaper the People's Daily and Japanese newspaper the Japan Times, it is clear that these two newspapers, which have two different political backgrounds, share some obvious similarities in terms of formatting. However, the differences are of much more significant as reflected in the construction of the texts and the lexical choices, modality and process types used in expressing the different views. In English language teaching, using authentic materials, such as newspaper articles and reports, makes the skill of CDA important as a teaching tool as it may help the English language learners to create and improve their language awareness and the ideology embedded in the texts. en_US
dc.format.extent 6 pages en_US
dc.format.mimetype application/pdf en_US
dc.identifier.citation The New English Teacher 10.2 (August 2016), 39-44 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1905-7725
dc.identifier.uri https://repository.au.edu/handle/6623004553/18498
dc.language.iso eng en_US
dc.publisher Assumption University Press en_US
dc.rights This work is protected by copyright. Reproduction or distribution of the work in any format is prohibited without written permission of the copyright owner. en_US
dc.subject Critical discourse analysis en_US
dc.subject Diaoyu/Senkaku en_US
dc.subject Language awareness en_US
dc.subject China en_US
dc.subject Japan en_US
dc.subject.other The English Teacher : -- An International Journal
dc.subject.other The English Teacher : -- An International Journal -- 2016
dc.title A critical discourse analysis of the news articles and reports about Diaoyu/Senkadu issues en_US
dc.type Text en_US
mods.genre Journal Article en_US
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