Critical Analysis and Identity Construction of Chinese News Media from Transitivity Perspective

As the disseminator of information, news media play a vital role in the public speech community. Especially the mainstream English media in China, which not only carefully design the topic, content, and framework of news to broadcast information but also construct cultural identity and build China's image. Exemplified by a piece of news from "China Daily," the present study analyzes its language features and function of transitivity system based on the theory of transitivity, and attempts to explore its implicit meaning and cultural identity beyond the literal text.