Phân tích diễn ngôn phê phán bài báo “Kyoto Protocol is not Enough to Tackle Climate Change”

Abstract

From a critical discourse analysis perspective, this research analyses a newspaper article entitled “Kyoto Protocol is not enough to tackle climate change” in The Independent. In light of Norman Fairclough’s Dialectical Relational Approach and Theo van Leeuwen’s Linguistically-Oriented Conceptual Framework, such lexico-syntactic categories as passivation, nominalization, and metaphors have been unveiled, which convey the attitudes of nations, organizations, individuals toward this event. Most strikingly presented is the UK’s positive attitude in support of the efforts against climate change. In addition, person dexis and implicit positive vocabulary help depict the journalist’s position, that is, to persuade the U.S. to jointly promote globally concerted efforts in addressing the challenge of climate change. The paper concludes with some recommendations on the application of critical discourse analysis in language studies at higher education, and suggestions for future research.