An Analysis of the Images of Senior Female Executives in Financial Times from the Perspective of CDA

摘要

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA for short) with the theoretical basis of Halliday's Systematic Functional Grammar, mainly studies the dialectical relationship between discourse and society by integrating several disciplines into it. This paper aims to explore the images of senior female executives by the approach of CDA, taking the news reports in Financial Times as an example, from the aspects of Transitivity, Voice, Mood and Choice of Words. The results show that there is a stereotyped view of them, reflecting the phenomenon of gender asymmetry in the news reports related to the images of senior female executives. Thus, some implications are provided that language is more than the tool for communication and thinking. Social power relations and ideology are deeply concealed in the disguise of language forms. Therefore, great importance should be attached to revealing and resisting the inequality in language use.