Abstract This study investigates the use of an ethnic term in news discourse from linguistic, discursive, and social-cultural aspects. A more rigorous computational procedure than hitherto used is employed to measure the collocational strength of collocates in news corpora. The results indicate diversified distributions of the collocates regarding their frequency, distance, and semantic connections. The findings enhance the meaning specificity of the term by revealing the characterized reference of this ethnic group, the trends in the choice of news topics, and the ideological representation of this ethnic group in a wider social-cultural context. The findings deepen an understanding of news discourse as the representations of the minority ethnicity in the news media are analyzed through three layers – the linguistic, the discursive, and the social-cultural context. A more precise method of analyzing news texts uncovers ideological effects brought about by media, in turn implying different construal of newsworthiness in news discourse.

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新闻语篇的搭配分析及其思想意蕴

摘要这项研究从语言，话语和社会文化方面研究了民族语在新闻语篇中的使用。使用比迄今为止使用的更为严格的计算过程来衡量新闻语料库中词语搭配的搭配强度。结果表明，在频率，距离和语义联系方面，这些搭配的分布是多种多样的。这些发现通过揭示该族裔的特征性参考，新闻主题选择的趋势以及在更广泛的社会文化背景下该族裔的意识形态表征，从而增强了该词的含义的特殊性。这些发现加深了对新闻话语的理解，因为新闻媒体中的少数族裔代表通过以下三层进行了分析：语言，话语，以及社会文化背景。一种更精确的分析新闻文本的方法，可以发现媒体带来的意识形态影响，进而暗示着新闻话语中具有新闻价值的解释不同。