A war or merely friction? Examining news reports on the current Sino-U.S. trade dispute in The New York Times and China Daily

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Fu Chen ◽  
Guofeng Wang
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Trade Dispute ◽  
China Daily

Global Warming as a Socioscientific Controversy

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Craig O. Stewart ◽  
Claire Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Policy Responses

Socioscientific controversies are “extended argumentative engagements over socially significant issues … comprising communicative events and practices in and from both scientific and nonscientific spheres” (Stewart, 2009, p. 125). While global warming is not controversial among the vast majority of climate scientists, socioscientific controversies over global warming abound in various media, as citizens, politicians, journalists, and others discuss and weigh the scientific evidence for and appropriate policy responses to global warming. In this chapter, the authors investigate the lexical choices used in the New York Times in straight news articles reporting on controversies about global warming from 2001-2006, as partisan differences on this issue became more pronounced. Specifically, using DICTION 5.0, the authors analyze 87 news reports, comparing those focused on science issues with those focused on policy issues. These statistical lexical comparisons are supplemented with qualitative discourse analyses.

scholarly journals THE NEW YORK TIMES AND CHINA DAILY ONLINE – LINGUISTIC COMPLEXITY IN NEWS HEADLINES

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shujun Wan
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Online News ◽  
Linguistic Complexity ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Native English Speaking ◽  
The Difference ◽  
News Headlines ◽  
China Daily

News headlines play an important role in attracting readers’ attention. By comparing 200 online news headlines collected from the New York Times and China Daily online, this paper aims at finding out the difference in linguistic complexity of English online news headlines in a native English speaking country and a non native English speaking country. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0710/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

A contrastive analysis of reports on North Korea’s missile program

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 646-665
Author(s):  
Weishan Liang
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Attribution Of Blame ◽  
Rising China ◽  
Missile Test ◽  
China Daily ◽  
The U.S

Abstract The paper compares the representation of the November 2017 missile test in news reports by The New York Times and China Daily. The U.S. reports embody to some extent a Cold War mindset by tending to internationalize the issue and make itself appear as a victim of the crisis. Through the attribution of blame, the U.S. seeks to evade its responsibilities and maintain its hegemonic status. The Chinese reports intimate that the crisis is mainly a problem between the U.S. and the Korean Peninsula. These reports tend to present China as a responsible stakeholder seeking to help solve the issue through communication and dialogue. The analysis of these differences is informed theoretically by perceived differences in culture. The paper concludes that the discourse patterns of these reports index a rising China and a shift in the balance of power in international politics.

Murder and Myth: New York Times Coverage of the TWA 847 Hijacking Victim

1993 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Lule
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
International News ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
News Reports

In June 1985, Shiite Moslem gunmen commandeered a TWA jetliner from Athens, Greece. The group held more than 150 people hostage and demanded the release of 700 Shiite Moslems jailed or detained by Israel. A passenger, U.S. Navy diver Robert Dean Stethem, was beaten and killed, his body pushed from the plane onto the runway. After 17 days of negotiations, with agreements reached for the release by Israel of hundreds of detainees, the hostages were released. Focusing on language in the New York Times, elite and essential for studies of international news images, a dramatistic analysis explores the newspaper's portrayal of the victim. The study suggests that the news reports of Robert Dean Stethem's killing may serve as a mythic drama of sacrifice. That is, in gripping portrayals of the victim's sacrifice to terrorism, the language of the news reports offers readers the opportunity to participate in a great drama of hope and despair, purpose and pain.

Global Warming as a Socioscientific Controversy

2014 ◽  
pp. 276-289
Author(s):  
Craig O. Stewart ◽  
Claire Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Policy Responses

Socioscientific controversies are “extended argumentative engagements over socially significant issues … comprising communicative events and practices in and from both scientific and nonscientific spheres” (Stewart, 2009, p. 125). While global warming is not controversial among the vast majority of climate scientists, socioscientific controversies over global warming abound in various media, as citizens, politicians, journalists, and others discuss and weigh the scientific evidence for and appropriate policy responses to global warming. In this chapter, the authors investigate the lexical choices used in the New York Times in straight news articles reporting on controversies about global warming from 2001-2006, as partisan differences on this issue became more pronounced. Specifically, using DICTION 5.0, the authors analyze 87 news reports, comparing those focused on science issues with those focused on policy issues. These statistical lexical comparisons are supplemented with qualitative discourse analyses.

scholarly journals Corpus Linguistics in Critical Discourse Analysis: A Case Study on News Reports of the 2011 Libyan Civil War

1969 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-28
Author(s):  
Sibo Chen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Canadian Association ◽  
China Daily

This paper reports a comparative analysis of the news coverage of the 2011 Libyan civil war in two national media (China Daily and The New York Times). The 2011 Libyan civil war attracted wide attention and was extensively covered by various media around the world. However, news discourse regarding the war was constructed differently across various news agencies as a result of their clashing ideologies. Based on corpus linguistics methods, two small corpora with a total of 22,412 tokens were compiled and the comparative analyses of the two corpora revealed the following results. First, although the two corpora shared a lot of commonalities in word frequency, differences still exist in several high ranking lemmas. On the one hand, words such as “Qaddafi” and “war” ranked similarly in the two corpora’s lexical frequency lists; on the other hand, the frequencies of the lemma “rebel/rebels” were much higher in The New York Times corpus than in the China Daily corpus, which indicated that the image of the rebel received more attention in the reports by The New York Times than in those by China Daily. Second, although the word “Qaddafi” achieved similar frequencies in the two corpora, a follow-up collocation analysis showed that the images of “Qaddafi” contrasted with each other in the two corpora. In The New York Times corpus, the words and phrases collocating with “Qaddafi” were mainly negative descriptions and highlighted the pressure on Qaddafi whereas many neutral and even positive descriptions of Qaddafi appeared in the China Daily corpus. Based on these findings, the paper further discusses how discursive devices are applied in news coverage of warfare, as well as some methodological implications of the case study (Reprinted by Permission of Canadian Association for the Studies of Discourse and Writing).

scholarly journals Construction of Huawei’s Image in News Reports: Take China Daily and The New York Times for Example

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Kuizi Ma ◽  
Ya Xiao
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
African Countries ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
American Media ◽  
China Daily

In recent years, as China&rsquo;s largest smartphone company, Huawei&rsquo;s position in the international market has gradually increased and received widespread attention from foreign media. The rapid development of China&rsquo;s impact on the hegemony of the US has also changed the direction of US media&rsquo;s reporting on Chinese companies. At this stage, it is meaningful to study the image of Huawei in both Chinese and US media reports. Therefore, based on the corpus approach and critical discourse analysis, this paper builds two corpora of China Daily (576 reports with 438,261 words) and The New York Times (429 reports with 347,025 words). It is found that (1) both sides acknowledge that Huawei ranks top in world telecommunication technology, particularly in the 5G network; (2) two newspapers focus on different aspects in their reports. For the Chinese media, Huawei&rsquo;s technological prowess, innovation capacity in the global market, cooperation with many other European and African countries are given more attention, while for the American media, more focus is shifted to Huawei&rsquo;s threat to national security; (3) two newspapers hold different attitudes towards the rise of Huawei. China Daily&rsquo;s positive construction of Huawei&rsquo;s image is obvious. While for the American media, the Trump administration is more likely to project a threatening image of Huawei; (4) the reporting frameworks and the styles of materials selected differ in two newspapers. China Daily&rsquo;s framework concentrates on &ldquo;Huawei&rdquo; itself, while The New York Times tends to construct a reporting framework from multiple perspectives from the third-party.

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