A Critical Discourse Analysis of News Headlines in Mainstream Media Reports of Public Health Emergencies—Based on the News Reports of Foreign Medias on COVID-19 Epidemic

Abstract

: Currently, a new type of coronavirus infection pneumonia epidemic has become the focus of attention around the world. At present, in addition to China, the world including the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Thailand, Singapore and other countries have been diagnosed. With the continuous development of the epidemic, the media of many countries have published relevant news reports about the new epidemic in major newspapers and magazines. This paper will take the foreign media epidemic news report headline as the discourse analysis research corpus, through the critical discourse analysis theory, uses the systematic function linguistic research method, carries on the critical discourse analysis to the world regarding the new coronavirus infection pneumonia epidemic news report headline. Revealing the ideology implied in the western mainstream news media news headlines, showing the world’s living beings in this war fight against the new coronavirus, with a view to combating the shameless behavior of discrediting China’s image while others are at risk, resisting the act of exclusion caused by the Chinese epidemic. Try to advocate that all countries should make concerted efforts in the face of public health emergencies to overcome the challenges and crises together. At the same time, to raise the consciousness of Chinese people’s ideology, so that Chinese readers can face the challenge of internationalization more objectively and calmly.