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Volume 10 Number 3 July 2024

A Study of China’s Epidemic News Report Based on Systemic-Functional Grammar-----A Case Study of a News


Authors: Deng Nan
Pages: 34-38
DOI: doi.org/10.32861/ellr.103.34.38
Abstract
News report, as an important social media, should convey information or report objectively and fairly. However, influenced by the ideology of different countries and the opinions of news reporters, news reports are not always objective and sometimes it would show some bias. Since the end of January 2020, COVID-19 has begun to spread around the world from Wuhan, China. At the same time, there have been increasing reports of outbreaks in China. Many reports showed many different attitudes and positions. This paper tries to analyze a news report titled as China Pushes Back as Coronavirus Crisis Damages Its Image on March 9th from New York Times as the research object. Based on Halliday’s ideational function and interpersonal function theory, this paper uses qualitative research methods to discusses the distribution of the six processes in the transitivity system in news report and the feasibility of transitivity and modality analysis in news report. This study proves that Halliday’s Systemic-Functional Grammar is an effective tool for analyzing news reports and it can help readers to critically read news reports and better understand the hidden meaning of news reports.

The Interactive Relationship between Guo Moruo’s Poetry Translation and Creation from the Perspective of Intertextuality


Authors: Xiao Wenwen ; Gu Yunfei
Pages: 27-33
DOI: doi.org/10.32861/ellr.103.27.33
Abstract
As an important writer in the history of modern Chinese literature, Guo Moruo has many works in both poetry translation and poetry creation. The poems written and translated by Guo within the period of his Goddess (from 1919 to August 1921) are selected to analyze the interaction between his poetry translation and creation from the perspective of intertextuality. There is intertextuality in literary thought: pantheism, spirit of the times, romanticism; intertextuality in themes and images; intertextuality in poetic form: use of foreign words, quotations from foreign poetry and attempts at modern poetry.