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浙江大学2013–2014学年秋冬季学期
《 西方新闻语言 》课程期末论文
姓名 庞振峰 学号 3110000361 专业 化学 成绩

News Discourse Analysis from the Perspective of Ideology
——The Comparison between the Reports towards July Urumqi Riots from Western countries and China

Abstract:An ideology is a set of comprehensions and ideas to objects and the world which directs one’s goals expectations and actions.Ideology is not inherent in one’s brain, but from the existence of societies.Ideology is generally referred to as a dominant way in which news people validate and give meaning to their work. The article compares the various reports of the July 2009 Urumqi riots from western and Chinese medium. With the comparison and analysis of these cases, the perspective reported to the incident was quite different between Chinese and Western medium. Some reasons will be stated from the perspective of ideology.
Keywords:ideology western media terrorist incident ethnic equality

As we all know that it is limited for us to surf some western countries` websites in China such as Youtube facebook and New york Times.Because the administrators believe that there are many news and information that may mislead citizens to form a wrong conception of the government and social system.Hence, there exists a problem that how the western medium report the news about China on earth and why?

1 Introduction of ETIM
In this passage,attention are mainly paid on the violent and terroristic incident which were launched by ETIM.

The East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) which is also known as the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP), Turkistan Islamic Movement (TIM), and other names is a Waziri based group. Its stated goals are the independence of East Turkestan.

ETIM continues this theme of contrasting "Muslims" and "Chinese", in a six minute video in 2008, where "Commander Seyfullah" warns Muslims not to bring their children to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and also saying "do not stay on the same



References: 1. "Chinese Islamists threaten Olympics: US group". Agence France-Presse. 2008-08-07. 2."百馀汉人被杀 西方媒体涉误导读者 中国官方含糊其辞" 亚洲周刊 2009-7-9 3. "What Should China Do About the Uighurs?" New York Times,room for debate,July 8, 2009 4.吴越民 [2013],《文化语境中的西方新闻话语》,浙江大学出版社,34-40 5.Wang Hai[2009]: Western Media International Reporting for Global Audience, p.13-17.

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