A critical discourse analysis of the news on north Korean missile launches

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A critical discourse analysis of the news on
north Korean missile launches

• By Nguyen thi phuong thao
• Supervisor Assoc. Prof., Dr. Tran huu manh

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contents

• Part 1- Introduction
• Part 2- Development
• Part 3- Conclusion

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introduction

• Rationale
• Scope of the research
• Aims of the research and research questions
• Methodology
• Background information
• Design of the research

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Scope of the research

• Written text
• From July 4th 2006 to July 28th 2006
• 32 headlines and 18 news articles in English and
  Vietnamese
• from two sources of news the Voice of America
  and Nhan Dan

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Aims of the research

• To provide a textual analysis
• To give an illustration of CDA concepts and
  analysis procedures
• To convey a message

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Research questions

• What are the representations ?
• What are the underlying ideologies ?
• Why are such ideologies encoded ?

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development

• Chapter 1- Theoretical background
• Chapter 2- Methodology
• Chapter 3- Data analysis and discussion

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Theoretical background

• The history of Critical Linguistics and CDA
• Theories on CDA
• Systemic Functional Linguistics and its role in
  CDA
• CDA in relation with Cultural Studies

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Theories on cda

• Definition
• Key notions
• Methodology
• Principles

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methodology

• Data
• Analytical framework
• Method of analysis

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Analyzing headlines

• What are the prominent processes ?
• What are the roles ?

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Analyzing full-text news reports

• Naming referents
• Lexicalization
• Over-lexicalization
• Quotation patterns

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Data analysis and discussion

• Analysis of headlines
• Analysis of full-text news reports

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Analysis of headlines- VOA

• Positively represent the US-Japan coalition
• 76.9 of the processes
• The role of actor and sayer in all processes
• Verbs denoting positive actions
• Negatively represent North Korea
• Less processes
• Both the role of actor and goal, sayer and target
• Verbs denoting negative actions

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Analysis of headlines- ND

• Neutral viewpoint
• Relatively balanced proportion
• 52.6 processes to the US and Japan
• 47.4 processes to others
• Neutral verbs

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Analysis of full-text news reports

• Naming referents
• Lexicalization
• Over-lexicalization
• Quotation patterns

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naming referents

• VOA
• Formal and neutral names for the US and Japan
• Negative names for NK
• Nhan Dan
• formal and neutral names for both groups of
  participants

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lexicalization

• VOA
• Negativization of NKs activities
• Positivization of the US-Japan coalitions
  activities
• Nhan Dan
• neutral and objective to both groups of
  participants

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Over-lexicalization

• VOA
• negative over-lexicalization of NKs missile
  launches
• Nhan Dan
• neutral over-lexicalization of NKs missile
  launches

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Quotation patterns

• VOA
• the US-Japan coalition 77.1
• North Korea 13.3
• war-protestors 9.6
• Nhan Dan
• the US-Japan coalition 47.5
• North Korea 22
• war-protestors 30

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conclusion

• A summary of the findings
• Suggestions for further research

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Suggestions for further research

• Carry out a research on a larger database
• Collect data from other sources
• Do a similar research on spoken discourse
• Analyze other discursive strategies

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Thank you very much!