Comparing the Distributions of Attitudinal Resources of News Discourses on London and Wuhan Lockdown During COVID-19 Outbreak Based on Appraisal Theory

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Chapter Title

Comparing the Distributions of Attitudinal Resources of News Discourses on London and Wuhan Lockdown During COVID-19 Outbreak Based on Appraisal Theory

Book Title

Proceedings of International Conference on Social and Education Sciences - 2021

Chapter Author(s)

Zixin Ye

Editors

Dr. Valarie Akerson, Dr. Mack Shelley

ISBN

978-1-952092-23-7

Pages

160-169

Abstract

The study aims to conduct a comparative study on the distribution features of attitudinal resources in London and Wuhan’s news discourses to examine the degree of objectivity shown in the wordings of the chosen discourses and analyze the way the reporters show their appraisals in 20 news discourses through quantitative and qualitative analysis. The author selects the news discourses on CNN (Cable News Network) official website reporting on Wuhan and London lockdown during the coronavirus epidemic as the corpus, with the attitude system of appraisal theory as the semantic framework, and UAM Corpus Tool as an auxiliary tool. The findings show that there is a richness of attitudinal resources in news discourses on Wuhan and London lockdown, among which affect resources appear the least frequently, while appreciation resources are the most used in the discourses. Secondly, the high-frequency content words are summarized from the discourses. Thirdly, the reporters manifest their appraisals in news discourses on Wuhan and London lockdown mainly by five methods: 1) the preference of negation and double negation; 2) an implicit shift of the focus; 3) the use of previous relevant news; 4) the use of quotes from authority and 5) the emphasis on internal disorder. The study builds a small corpus to explore the attitudinal resources, textual features and the subjectivity and objectivity of the chosen CNN news discourses, sharing a research perspective and value for future research.


Citation

Ye, Z. (2021). Comparing the distributions of attitudinal resources of news discourses on London and Wuhan lockdown during COVID-19 outbreak based on Appraisal Theory. In V. Akerson & M. Shelley (Eds.), Proceedings of IConSES 2021-- International Conference on Social and Education Sciences (pp. 160-169), Chicago, USA. ISTES Organization.



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