A Comparative Analysis of Generic Structure Features in the News on Hong Kong National Security Law Between Chinese and American Newspapers
The Case of People’s Daily and The Washington Times
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.210519.024How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Hong Kong National Security Law, Chinese and American newspapers, generic structure features, comparison, communicative purposes
- Abstract
At present, few scholars have made a comparative study on the news discourse of Hong Kong National Security Law between Chinese and American newspapers, and few scholars have systematically revealed the generic structure features of such discourse. In view of this, this study selects 20 pieces of news on Hong Kong National Security Law respectively from People’s Daily and The Washington Times to compare their differences in generic structure features and the causes. It is found that the former reflects the objectivity, pertinence, focalization of news reports and the firm stance of defending Hong Kong National Security Law, while the latter reflects the storytelling nature, subjectivity, and richness and breadth of news content; these differences are caused by the different communicative purposes of the two newspapers. This study can provide enlightenment for the discourse construction of Chinese newspapers when reporting the Hong Kong National Security Law, and also contribute to extending the research field of generic structure.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Peng Zhuo PY - 2021 DA - 2021/05/20 TI - A Comparative Analysis of Generic Structure Features in the News on Hong Kong National Security Law Between Chinese and American Newspapers BT - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 120 EP - 124 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210519.024 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.210519.024 ID - Zhuo2021 ER -