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话语与社会的变迁基于《人民日报》
青岛农业大学
毕业论文
题目:
话语与社会的变迁—基于《人民日报》
元旦社论(1949-2013)的历时研究
姓名:
学院:
外国语学院
专业:
英语
班级:
1002
学号:
20105519
指导教师:
纪卫宁
2014年6月17日
DiscourseandSocialChange
—ADiachronicStudyoftheNewYear’sEditorials(1949-2013)inthePeople’sDaily
XingJianping
AThesisSubmittedinConformitywiththeRequirements
fortheDegreeofBachelorofArts
SupervisedbyJiWeining
ForeignLanguagesSchoolofQingdaoAgriculturalUniversity
June6,2014
Contents
1.Introduction……………………………………………….....……….….…2
2.TheoreticalBackground…………………………………………………...3
3.DiachronicStudyofHighFrequencyKeyWords……………...……......3
4.DiachronicStudyofTitles………………………..……………………......6
5.DiachronicStudyofGenericStructure…………..………………..…..….8
5.1TheIdentificationofGenericUnits—MoveandStep…………....……..9
5.2ChangesofGenericStructureovertheFivePeriods.......….………......10
6.Conclusion……………………………………...………………....…….…13
References………………………………………………..……….…………14
Acknowledgements……………………………………………………...…..16
Appendix……………………………………………………………………..17
DiscourseandSocialChange
—ADiachronicStudyoftheNewYear’sEditorials(1949-2013)inthePeople’sDaily
XingJianping
Class2,2007,ForeignLanguagesSchool,QingdaoAgriculturalUniversity
Abstract:
Thereisadialecticalrelationshipbetweenlanguageandsociety.Languagechangeswithchangesofsociety,inconverse,alsocastseffectsonsocialchanges.Since1949,Chinesesocietyhasexperiencedseveralmajorsocialchanges.Whetherthesesocialchangeswillaffectlanguageuseornothasbeenoneofthemajorconcernsoflinguisticfield.ThispaperchoosestheNewYear’sEditorialsofthePeople’sDailyasstudyobjectforthepurposetoexploretherelationsbetweendiscourseandsocialchange.Takingsystemicfunctionallinguisticstheoryastheoreticalbasisandthecombinationofqualitativeandquantitativeanalysisasresearchmethod,thisstudyinvestigatesthediachronicchangesoftheNewYear’sEditorialsover65years(1949-2013).Thisinvestigationmainlyprecedesthroughthreeaspects,namely,analysisofthehighfrequencykeywords,title,andgenericstructure.TheanalysisrevealsthattheNewYear’sEditorial,asatypeofdiscourse,displaysevidentdiachronicchangeswhichhaveacloserelationshipwiththechangesofsocialandculturalcontext,showingcovariantcharacteristics.
Keywords:
TheNewYear’sEditorial;CovariantRelations;GenericStructure;SocialSituations
话语与社会的变迁—基于《人民日报》元旦社论(1949-2013)的历时研究
摘要:
语言与社会之间具有一种辩证相关的关系。
语言随着社会的发展而变化,并反过来影响社会的变化。
1949年以来,中国社会经历过几次重大的社会变革,这种变革对语言的使用是否产生影响是语言学界关注的问题之一。
本文以《人民日报》的元旦社论为研究对象,以系统功能语言学的思想为观照,运用定性分析与定量分析方法,对建国以来《人民日报》65篇(1949—2013)元旦社论进行历时研究。
研究主要从语篇的高频关键词、标题、体裁结构三个方面对元旦社论进行历时的语言学层面的文本分析,目的在于揭示话语和社会环境的关系。
研究发现元旦社论这一语篇类型的语言学特征呈现出明显的历时变化,这些语言学特征的变化与社会环境的变化具有密切的关系,呈现出共变的特征。
关键词:
元旦社论、共变关系、体裁结构、社会环境
1.Introduction
Discourseistheresultoflanguagewhenitisusedincommunication,whichisconfinedbysocialconventionsanditalsocanreflectthem.Itisatangibleformofcommunicationactthatissemanticallyandpragmaticallycoherent,andcanberenderedineitherwrittenformorspokenformandisusedtoachievecommunicationgoal.Asonetypeofdiscourse,theNewYear’sEditorialinthePeople’sDailyisatypicalstudyobjecttostudytherelationshipbetweenlanguageandsocialchanges.TheNewYear’sEditorialwhichispublishedbythemainstreammediaonthecountry’smostimportantfestivalepitomizesnotonlythestateline,principlesandpoliciesofthepartyandthecountry,butalsotheoutlookofthepartyandcountryonvariousaspectsofpolitics,economyandcultureinthenewyear.Asonetypeofnewscomment,theNewYear’sEditorialreflectsthesocialenvironmentwhereithappens,andhascovariantrelationswithit.SincethefoundationofChina,thePeople’sDailyhasissuedthe65NewYear’sEditorials(1949-2013).TherearemanypreviousresearchesontheNewYear’sEditorial.However,mostofthemfocusonmacrostudyofsocialrelations;fewofthempayattentiontodetailedlinguisticsstudieswithaviewtotherelationshipbetweenlanguageandsocialchanges.ThisstudyaimsatinvestigatingadiachronicstudyoftheNewYear’sEditorialinordertodisclosetherelationshipbetweenlanguageandsocialchangesthroughacombinationofqualitativeandquantitativeanalysisofthetext.Thepaperdividesthe65NewYear’sEditorialsintofiveperiodsaccordingtomaindevelopingperiodsofChinesesociety:
theearlieryearsofnewChina(1949-1956),theperiodoftoughdevelopmentofChina(1957-1965),theperiodoftheCulturalRevolution(1966-1977),theperiodofearlyyearsof“ReformandOpeningup”(1978-1992)andtheperiodofbuildingsocialismwithChinesecharacteristics(1993-2013).Inordertoavoidone-sidednessandsubjectivityontheselectedcorpus,andtoensurethevalidityofthestudyasfaraspossible,thispaperfollowscomprehensive,fullandobjectiveprinciples,andanalyzesallthe65NewYear’sEditorials(1949-2013).
2.TheoreticalBackground
ThestudytakesHalliday’ssystemicfunctionalgrammarastheoreticalbasis.AccordingtoHalliday(1985),“whateverthefinalpurposeordirectionoftheanalysis,therehastobeagrammaratthebase.Adiscourseanalysisthatisnotbasedongrammarisnotananalysisatall.”Asystemicfunctionalapproachcanbeappliedtodiscoursestudy.Manyscholarshaveconducteddiscourseanalysisfromtheperspectiveofsystemicfunctionallinguistics(SFL),fromwhichmanyfeaturesaboutdiscoursehavebeendiscovered.SFLischosenasthemaintheoryforthepresentstudy,foritisatheorythatisparticularlydedicatedtoexpoundingtherelationshipsbetweenculture,societyandlanguageuse.SFLsuggeststhattherearedirectinterconnectionsbetweensocialenvironmentandlanguageuse.Hallidaybelievesthesocialstructureisrealizedbythelanguagestructure,whichalsoreflectsthesocialstructureobviously.Languagevariationisasymbolicexpressionofsocialvariation.Itiscreatedbysociety,andinturn,ithelpstocreatesociety.Hallidayregardslanguageassocialsymbolsandsocialbehavior.First,languageisasocialsymbolanditisasubsystemofthesocialsymbol.Second,languageissocialbehavior,andsocialbehaviorisembodiedthroughlanguage.AccordingtoHalliday,oneoftheaimsofSFListoservethepurposeoftextanalysis.TheeffectivenessofdiscoursecanbeinvestigatedfromtheperspectiveofSFL.Anothersupporterofsystemicfunctionalgrammar,Fairclough(1992:
64-65)alsoemphasizesthedialecticalrelationbetweenlanguageandsocialchange.Languageistheproductofsocietyandissubjectedtothesocialstructure.Languageandsocialstructureareinseparable.Heinsiststhatthelanguagevarianthasitsownsocialvaluesandsocialfunctionsandhebelievesthatlanguageandsocietyisaninseparableunity.Languagecanleadtosocialchangeandreflectsadeeperlevelofsocialreality.
3.DiachronicStudyofHighFrequencyKeyWords
ThisstudyemploysacorpuslinguisticsmethodtocollectandanalysethehighfrequencykeywordsintheNewYear’sEditorialsandexplainsthereasonswhythesekeywordsappearfrequently.Thecorpuslinguisticscombinescorpuswithcomputeranalysissoftwareandotherwaystodealwithdata,allowingresearcherstoidentifylanguagepatterns.Theresearchmethodofcorpusseemsmoreconvenientandreliablewhenitcomestoanalyzingalargecorpusofdiscourse.ThisstudyusescorpusanalysismethodtoobservethehighfrequencykeywordsintheNewYear’sEditorials,seekingsocialchangesthroughtheNewYearEditorials.Corpusanalysisofhighfrequencywordspresentsusatypicaltypeoflanguageusage,andprovidesusaclearcluetounderstandthesocialsituationsindifferenthistoricalperiods.
Thepaperfirstdividesthe65NewYear’sEditorials(1949-2013)intofivespecializedcorpusaccordingtothefiveperiods.ThispaperusesWordSmithToolsVersion4toanalyzethesefivespecializedcorpus,andregardstheMcEnery&Xiao(2004)LancasterChinesecorpus(LCMC)asareferencecorpus,withthepurposetocollectthekeywordsinthefivespecializedcorpus.Accordingtoresearchneeds,thepapermainlyretrieveshighfrequencykeywordsinthefivespecializedcorpus,hopingtofindthechangesofChinesesocietythroughthecorpusanalysis.Throughthecorpusanalysis,thehighfrequencykeywordsofthefiveperiodsarelistedinthefollowingtable.
Periods
HighFrequencyKeyWords
Thefirstperiod
(1949-1956)
困难(difficulty)、侵略(aggression)、苏联(theSovietUnion)、改造(transformation)、合作(cooperation)、农业改造(agriculturalreform)
Thesecondperiod
(1957-1965)
矛盾(contradiction)、速度(speed)、调整(adjustment)、苏联(theSovietUnion)、帝国主义(theimperialist)
Thethirdperiod
(1966-1977)
无产阶级(theproletariat)、文化大革命(CulturalRevolution)、无产阶级专政(theproletariandictatorship)、毛主席(ChairmanMao)、毛泽东思想(MaoZedongThought)
Thefourthperiod
(1978-1992)
调整(adjustment)、改革开放(ReformandOpeningup)、经济建设(economicconstruction)、稳定(stability)、中国特色社会主义(socialismwithChinesecharacteristics)
Thefifthperiod
(1993-2013)
政府(government)、人民(people)、中国特色社会主义(socialismwithChinesecharacteristics)、小康社会(well-offsociety)
Table1.Highfrequencykeywordsineachperiod
Itcanbeseenthroughthetableabove,“difficulty”,“aggression”,“theSovietUnion”,“transformation”,“cooperation”,“agriculturalreform”arethehighfrequencykeywordsinthefirstperiod.ThesehighfrequencykeywordsreflectthemainissuesandsocialsituationofChinainthefirstperiod.AfterthefoundingofthenewChina,thenewcountryfacedmanydifficulties,forinstance,lowproductivityandbackwardeco
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