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Comparative Study on the Appraisal Resources of China Daily’s Disaster News

2015; Academy Publication; Volume: 5; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês

10.17507/tpls.0510.20

2053-0692

Xiaolin Zhang,

Disaster Management and Resilience

This study compares the appraisal resources of the 1998 Shangyi earthquake reports and the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake reports collected from China Daily , examining whether there’s improvement in disaster reporting. It finds that great changes have taken place over the 10 years. The most prominent changes are that the instances of Attitudinal and Engagement resources as well as the proportions of the Affect and the negative Attitudinal resources increased in the 2008 earthquake reports; moreover, the appraisers in the 2008 earthquake reports are far more diversified. The changes implicate a development in the disaster reports of China Daily , i.e., an ordinary people oriented reporting strategy was adopted in the 2008 earthquake reporting; more civilian were concerned in the disaster reports; the traditional sheer positive reporting method has been abandoned and more attention has been paid to people’s true feelings.