Yijia Wei

doi:10.70711/rcha.v2i7.5197

An Analysis of Reported Speeches in the Reports on Hong Kongs Academic Freedom in The Economist

Yijia Wei

Abstract

As a research method, the analysis of reported speech is mainly conducted in English editorials, advertisements, academic discourses, political speeches, and so on. Compared with foreign studies, there are relatively few ones on English news reports from the perspective
of critical discourse analysis. This research analyzes the reported speeches of the English news discourse from the perspective of critical discourse analysis.
??This research chooses three articles from The Economist about academic freedom in Hong Kong from 2020 to September 2021. The
purpose is to find out how news reporters of The Economist express their similar attitudes and standpoints by using reported speeches when
they report the same event. It analyzes the hidden ideology and intention of the reported speeches from three aspects: mode, news source, and
verb. The research methods include qualitative and quantitative analyses. The major significance of this research is not only to remind the
readers of the real intention and hidden ideology of reporters but also to supplement the analysis of political news discourse from a critical
discourse analysis perspective.

Keywords

Reported speech; Critical discourse analysis; News report; Academic freedom

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.70711/rcha.v2i7.5197

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