News report, as an important social media, should convey information or report objectively and fairly. However, influenced by the ideology of different countries and the opinions of news reporters, news reports are not always objective and sometimes it would show some bias. Since the end of January 2020, COVID-19 has begun to spread around the world from Wuhan, China. At the same time, there have been increasing reports of outbreaks in China. Many reports showed many different attitudes and positions. This paper tries to analyze a news report titled as China Pushes Back as Coronavirus Crisis Damages Its Image on March 9th from New York Times as the research object. Based on Halliday’s ideational function and interpersonal function theory, this paper uses qualitative research methods to discusses the distribution of the six processes in the transitivity system in news report and the feasibility of transitivity and modality analysis in news report. This study proves that Halliday’s Systemic-Functional Grammar is an effective tool for analyzing news reports and it can help readers to critically read news reports and better understand the hidden meaning of news reports.
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