语言学论文哪里有？经过深入分析，作者认为《人民日报》和《华盛顿邮报》在很大程度上采用了具体互文性和一般互文性。在具体的互文性方面，它主要体现在新闻来源、报道方式和报道动词上。《人民日报》和《华盛顿邮报》在使用特定的互文性方面有一些相似之处，但也有一些细微的差异。说到报道动词的应用，《华盛顿邮报》倾向于使用动词“say”，而《人民日报》的记者更喜欢使用“say”通知 （指通知）”。
Chapter One Introduction
1.2 Research objectives and significance
Based on Xin Bin’s classification of intertextuality (Xin, 2000), this paper aims to compare the intertextual features of news reports from People’s Daily and The Washington Post on resumption of work during the COVID-19 outbreak, and tries to find out the similarities and differences of these two newspapers in using specific intertextuality and generic intertextuality when it comes to reporting resumption of work, then tries to discuss the pragmatic functions that the intertextuality features perform in People’s Daily and The Washington Post.
After thorough comparison and analysis, the significance of this study will reflect in both theoretical and practical aspects.
Firstly, it will theoretically enrich the studies of news discourse from the perspective of intertextuality. Based on the previous studies, we find out that English news discourse has been studied from various perspectives, such as stylistic feature, genre analysis and critical discourse analysis and so on. However, in this thesis the author takes a different perspective and tries to analyze the intertextual features of news discourse, so to some extent it will enrich the studies about news discourse.
In addition, although some scholars have employed intertextuality in news reports in a comparative way, the author found that there were few researches on the same topic in news discourse, so in this thesis the author chooses the topic which relates to the resumption of work during the COVID-19 outbreak. So, to a certain degree this study can serve as a supplement for the current intertextuality study about news discourse, and it will also provide a new angle for the theoretical study of intertextuality and pave the way for further related study.
Chapter Three Research Methodology
3.1 Research questions
In the effort to reveal the similarities and differences in applying specific intertextuality and generic intertextuality when it comes to the news reports on resumption of work, and further discuss the pragmatic functions that the intertextuality features perform in People’s Daily and The Washington Post, the author put forward three research questions in the below:
(1) What are the similarities and differences regarding specific intertextuality in news reports on resuming business between People’s Daily and The Washington Post?
(2) What are the similarities and differences regarding generic intertextuality in news reports on resuming business between People’s Daily and The Washington Post?
(3) What pragmatic functions do these intertextuality features perform in People’s Daily and The Washington Post?
Chapter Four Data Analysis and Discussion
4.1 Similarities and differences in specific intertextuality
Intertextuality is ubiquitous in discourses and texts, which is regarded as the basic features of them. In news reports, intertextuality is more universally visible than any other carriers. According to Fairclough, intertextuality is the basic attribute of all texts (Fairclough, 1992). Specific intertextuality, in Xin’s classification and interpretation, refers to the intertextual relations of one text with another ones (Xin, 2000). Or to put it in another way, it means that a discourse contains utterances of other discourses with specific sources.
In this part, the author spares no efforts to analyze specific intertextuality from the perspective of reporting speech, news source and reporting modes to compare the similarities and differences of People’s Daily and The Washington Post in employing specific intertextuality.
4.2 Similarities and differences in generic intertextuality
In previous sections, specific intertextuality of news discourse was analyzed in detail. In this part we will focus on generic intertextuality analysis. There is always generic intertextuality in both literary discourse and non-literary discourse. As mentioned before, Xin classified intertextuality into specific intertextuality and generic intertextuality (Xin, 2000). His idea of generic intertextuality was deeply influenced by Fairclough and generic intertextuality corresponds to interdiscursivity that was put forward by Fairclough. Fairclough claimed that interdiscursivity refers to the constitution of a text from various discourses and genres (Fairclough, 1995). Similarly, Xin believes that generic intertextuality means the mixture of various styles, registers and genres in a discourse (Xin, 2000).
In this section, the author will conduct an analysis of generic intertextuality from the perspective of genre, based on Xin’s notion of generic intertextuality. Besides, the idea of interdiscursivity will also serve as a reference in the course of analysis and discussion of generic intertextuality in news reports of People’s Daily and The Washington Post.
Chapter Five Conclusion
5.1 Major findings of the study
Based on Xin’s classification of intertextuality, this study is devoted to conducting a comparative analysis on intertextuality between People’s Daily and The Washington Post on the topic of resumption of work in social context of the outbreak of COVID-19, and further revealing the similarities and differences in the application of specific intertextuality and generic intertextuality. The main findings of the study will be summarized in the below.
After thorough analysis, the author figured that in People’s Daily and The Washington Post, specific intertextuality and generic intertextuality have been adopted to a large extent. In the aspect of specific intertextuality, it has been reflected in the news source, reporting modes and reporting verbs. People’s Daily and The Washington Post share some similarities but also have slight differences in using specific intertextuality. When it comes to the application of reporting verbs, The Washington Post is inclined to use the verb “say”, whereas in People’s Daily, reporters prefer to use “通知 (means inform)”. It indicates that the news resource of People’s Daily comes from government or official institutions to some extent. In The Washington Post, utterances from scholars and ordinary people have a larger proportion in news resource. Generic intertextuality has been reflected in the mixture of genres in People’s Daily and The Washington Post. Various genres are mixed in a single news report, and there is rare one-genre-oriented phenomenon in news reports. Moreover, there are two major pragmatic functions of the intertextuality features in news reports on resumption of work. Among the intertextuality features, specified source and mixture of genres not only endow the news with credibility, but also reflect the intention of reporters.
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