Language and ideology in english and vietnamese business hard news reporting - a comparative study

This paper reports on an investigation into how governments, central banks and people are presented in English and Vietnamese hard news, business reports. Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and the transitivity system in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL),...

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Main Author:	Vo, Duc Duy
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2013
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6515/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6515/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6515/1/2822-7445-1-PB.pdf

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spelling	ukm-65152016-12-14T06:41:24Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6515/ Language and ideology in english and vietnamese business hard news reporting - a comparative study Vo, Duc Duy This paper reports on an investigation into how governments, central banks and people are presented in English and Vietnamese hard news, business reports. Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and the transitivity system in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), the study examined the underlying ideology embedded in the business news reports. The paper consists of two parts. The first part analyses two texts sharing the same topic which serves as a preliminary study to a corpus analysis of fifty texts (25 in each language) discussed in the second part. The analysis shows that the government and its central bank in the Vietnamese reports are portrayed as more powerful than those in the English reports, and people in Vietnamese are presented as passive and absent while those in English are presented as active, performing various roles in the experiential world of business. The study offers some implications for English language teaching practices. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2013 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6515/1/2822-7445-1-PB.pdf Vo, Duc Duy (2013) Language and ideology in english and vietnamese business hard news reporting - a comparative study. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 19 (2). pp. 1-12. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournals.ukm.my/3l
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description	This paper reports on an investigation into how governments, central banks and people are presented in English and Vietnamese hard news, business reports. Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and the transitivity system in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), the study examined the underlying ideology embedded in the business news reports. The paper consists of two parts. The first part analyses two texts sharing the same topic which serves as a preliminary study to a corpus analysis of fifty texts (25 in each language) discussed in the second part. The analysis shows that the government and its central bank in the Vietnamese reports are portrayed as more powerful than those in the English reports, and people in Vietnamese are presented as passive and absent while those in English are presented as active, performing various roles in the experiential world of business. The study offers some implications for English language teaching practices.
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title	Language and ideology in english and vietnamese business hard news reporting - a comparative study
title_short	Language and ideology in english and vietnamese business hard news reporting - a comparative study
title_full	Language and ideology in english and vietnamese business hard news reporting - a comparative study
title_fullStr	Language and ideology in english and vietnamese business hard news reporting - a comparative study
title_full_unstemmed	Language and ideology in english and vietnamese business hard news reporting - a comparative study
title_sort	language and ideology in english and vietnamese business hard news reporting - a comparative study
publisher	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM
publishDate	2013
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6515/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6515/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6515/1/2822-7445-1-PB.pdf
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Language and ideology in english and vietnamese business hard news reporting - a comparative study

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