Open AccessA Metafunctional Analysis of the News “ROK, DPRK Agree to Defuse Tension after Talks” on China Daily
Author(s) -
Bo Xu
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
english language teaching
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1916-4750
pISSN - 1916-4742
DOI - 10.5539/elt.v8n11p92
Subject(s) - transitive relation , objectivity (philosophy) , interpersonal communication , china , psychology , systemic functional linguistics , pronoun , experiential learning , linguistics , social psychology , epistemology , political science , philosophy , law , mathematics education , mathematics , combinatorics
On the basis of the three metafunctions in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL): experiential, interpersonal and textual, the paper makes an analysis of the current news “ROK, DPRK Agree to Defuse Tension after Talks” on China Daily. The paper finds out that the political news has unique features in terms of experiential, interpersonal and textual function. Objectivity and accuracy of network news is realized via transitivity systems and third person pronoun in the news.