Tentative Analysis of News from the Perspective of Interpersonal Metafunction

  • Bei Chen Anshun Vocational and Technical College
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18282/l-e.v9i4.1706
Keywords: Interpersonal Metafunction, Basic Speech Roles, Modality, Tense；News

Abstract

News reports as a special genre are not reliable and credible as we imagine. They do not only report news facts, but also express some kind of attitudes which will influence readers’ judgments. According to interpersonal metafuction ，it is possible to dig up the reporters’ or speakers’ ideology in discourse analysis through modal verbs, modal auxiliaries, modal adjectives, modal lexical words, sometimes through tenses.

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Published
2021-03-25
Issue
Vol. 9 No. 4 (2020)

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