Interdisciplinary Studies

What is newsworthy about Covid-19? A corpus linguistic analysis of news values in reports by China Daily and The New York Times

S. Liu and H. Yu

Dive into the intriguing study by Siyang Liu and Hailing Yu, which explores how China Daily and The New York Times depict the Covid-19 pandemic news from their unique cultural and political perspectives. This research uncovers the contrasting approaches in representation, emphasizing positivity and self-representation in domestic coverage and varied nuances in international news.

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Abstract

This article investigates how China Daily (CD) and The New York Times (NYT) represent the Covid-19 pandemic as newsworthy, considering their different cultural and political backgrounds. Corpus linguistic techniques (keywords, collocations, concordance) were used to analyze headlines and leads from 2572 news reports (2020-2021). Results show CD emphasizes Proximity, Positivity, and Personalization in domestic news, while NYT highlights Eliteness and Personalization. For international news, CD focuses on Negativity, Impact, Superlativeness, and Eliteness, whereas NYT emphasizes Negativity, Impact, and Proximity. CD exhibits a stronger tendency towards positive self-representation and negative other-representation.

Publisher

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications

Published On

Oct 26, 2023

Authors

Siyang Liu, Hailing Yu

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