美國媒體中的中國形象——cnn中涉華涉日報道對比研究

1、 太原理工大學碩士研究生學位論文iA Study of China’s National Image in American Media—— A Comparative Study of China-related andJapan-related News in CNNABSTRACTThis thesis studies China’s national image from the perspective of linguist

2、icsunder the theoretical foundation of Appraisal Theory, which is different from most ofthe previous studies that conducts the national image from the perspectives ofcommunication and international relations. Many studie

3、s on China-related news textsin American media have shown that American mass media is spreading many China’snegative events to destroy the image of China, while some American journalists havesuggested that the American m

4、edia do not attempt to demonize China, and they justtreat China equal to other countries. To explore this complex phenomenon, this studywill be devoted to make a comparison on China-related and Japan-related newsreports

5、in one American medium. The reason why this author chooses news samplesfrom CNN is that the online news becoming more and more influential, with thewidely uses of internet. Japan is an ally of the US, and its economy is

6、basically thesame as that of China. Thus, Japan is a appropriate contract object in this study.The research procedures are presented as follows: (1) download theChina-related and Japan-related coverage from CNN and divid

7、es them into differentnews topics according to its content; (2) annotate the attitude resources based on theAppraisal Theory with the software UAM Corpus Tool 3.3f; (3) contrast thedistributions of attitude resources in