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Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, 2022, 5(3); doi: 10.25236/AJHSS.2022.050314.

A Critical Discourse Analysis of COVID-19 Coverage from the Perspective of Fairclough’s Three-Dimensional Framework

Author(s)

Xin Wang, Yuxuan Yuan, Yixi Kong

Corresponding Author:
Xin Wang
Affiliation(s)

Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

Abstract

This study investigates news reports of COVID-19 in The New York Times and China Daily from February 2020 to April 2020 utilizing Fairclough’s three-dimensional framework for analysis of discourse. This paper is to explore the changes of the focuses of the two media’s coverage on COVID-19, the images of China created by them, and the ideological differences between China and America behind the news reports.

Keywords

Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Covid-19

Cite This Paper

Xin Wang, Yuxuan Yuan, Yixi Kong. A Critical Discourse Analysis of COVID-19 Coverage from the Perspective of Fairclough’s Three-Dimensional Framework. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2022) Vol. 5, Issue 3: 75-80. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2022.050314.

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