Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Education, Language and Art (ICELA 2021)

Discourse Analysis: Media Bias and Linguistic Patterns on News Reports

Authors
Ziran Zhou1, *,
1Shangde Experimental School, Shanghai, Shanghai, China
*Corresponding author. Email: 1zhouziran@shangdejy.com
Corresponding Author
Ziran Zhou
Available Online 1 February 2022.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220131.049How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Media bias; Linguistic patterns; News reports; Corpus approach
Abstract

A well-directed article may affect the objectivity of the event itself and the reader’s interpretation. Language is powerful because it can appeal to emotions and ideologies, and therefore readers need to establish a more objective judgement in the various news reports from different news media. Based on the purpose of the study, this paper discusses the media bias and language patterns of different news reports on the theme of “COVID-19”. By using corpus methods, comparative analysis and discourse analysis, this study analyses 20 articles published by CNN and CBN, two news media with left and right political stances respectively. The results reveal that (1) The two news media have their own preferences in phrase collocation. (2) Exposure to media bias is closely related to the high-frequency word “vaccine”.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Education, Language and Art (ICELA 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
1 February 2022
ISBN
10.2991/assehr.k.220131.049
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220131.049How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
Open Access
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TI  - Discourse Analysis: Media Bias and Linguistic Patterns on News Reports
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Education, Language and Art (ICELA 2021)
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