Author(s)

Yang Liqun ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Foreign Languages, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, China

Corresponding Author

Yang Liqun

ABSTRACT

In the era of new media, political news enables the public to be informed about significant global political events and gain a deeper understanding of national policies and strategies. The ongoing turbulent situations in Syria is an international issue involving multifaceted interests, and its future trend of development will be highly complicated as it is influenced by factors such as geopolitics, religion, society and international relations. In this paper, news articles on the Syrian situations were collected from the English websites of Xinhua News Agency and AL Arabiya using "Syria" as the keyword. Adopting Attitude System and its subsystems—Affect, Judgment, and Appreciation in Martin's Appraisal Theory as the theoretical framework and basing on positive discourse analysis, the study employs a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods to explore the interpersonal functions present in the coverage of the Syrian situations by these two media outlets. By comparing and analyzing the attitudinal resources in these reports, this paper examines the Syrian situations from the perspectives of China and an Arab country, aiming to provide a more comprehensive understanding of international affairs by breaking through the traditional focus on Western media through critical discourse analysis.

KEYWORDS

Political News, Syrian Situations, Attitudinal Resources, Positive Discourse Analysis

CITE THIS PAPER

Yang Liqun, A Comparative Study of Attitudinal Resources in the Coverage of the Syrian Situations by Chinese and Arab Mainstream Media. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2025) Vol. 8: 20-27. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2025.080404.

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