Interpersonal Rhetoric in the Editorials of «China Daily»: A Generic Perspective

ISBN-13: 9783034300841 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 240 str.

Lihua, Liu

Opis

This book offers a critical review of three different approaches to Editorial Discourse Analysis (EDA). In a practical approach, each of the three linguistic, discoursal and dialogistic is applied to the analysis of China Daily editorials.
What are the social functions of China Daily editorials? How are these functions realized in the editorial texts? These are the questions the author focused on carrying out this study, which is aimed at exploring the reasons for the discourse practice of editorials of China Daily.
Beyond describing the language features of China Daily editorials, this book attempts to explain Interpersonal Rhetoric from cultural and social perspectives."

Spis treści

Contents: Towards an Analytical Model of Editorial Discourse Analysis - Attitude in the Editorials - Modal Expressions in Editorials - Editorial as Social Action - Rhetoric Alignment in the Editorials - Editorial as Social Power.

O autorze

The Author: Liu Lihua (1972) is a lecturer and researcher at Beijing Foreign Studies University. His research focus lies on media discourse and he has published a study on editorials in China Daily. Liu Lihua received his Ph.D. from Tsinghua University in 2007.