An Analysis of the Images of Senior Female Executives in Financial Times from the Perspective of CDA
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA for short) with the theoretical basis of Hallidays Systematic Functional Grammar, mainly studies the dialectical relationship between discourse and society by integrating several disciplines into it. This paper aims to explore the images of senior female executives by the approach of CDA, taking the news reports in Financial Times as an example, from the aspects of Transitivity, Voice, Mood and Choice of Words. The results show that there is a stereotyped view of them, reflecting the phenomenon of gender asymmetry in the news reports related to the images of senior female executives. Thus, some implications are provided that language is more than the tool for communication and thinking. Social power relations and ideology are deeply concealed in the disguise of language forms. Therefore, great importance should be attached to revealing and resisting the inequality in language use.
CDA Systematic Functional Grammar The image of senior female executives
ZHAO Shurong SONG Junxia
School of Foreign Languages, Shandong Womens University, P. R. China, 250002
国际会议
2011 International Symposium --The Female Survival and Development(2011女性生存与发展国际研讨会)
济南
英文
96-100
2011-10-28（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）