From Confrontation to Collaboration: Attitudinal Changes of Trish Regan on US-China Trade War in Commentaries and Debate

Weichao Wang and Xiaofen Zhang
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Weichao Wang: School of English for International Business Guangdong University of Foreign Studies No.2 North Baiyun Avenue, Baiyun Disctrict Guangzhou, 510420, PRC. China
Xiaofen Zhang: Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, 2 North Baiyun Avenue, Baiyun District, Guangzhou 510420, China

English Literature and Language Review, 2020, vol. 6, issue 8, 174-181

Abstract: In her cross-border debate with Chinese anchor Liu Xin, Trish Regan, an American anchor, behaved differently than what she had done in her previous commentaries. This paper explores the attitudinal differences evinced by Trish Regan on different occasions from a linguistic perspective. Based on the Appraisal System, especially the Attitude subsystem (Martin and White, 2005), this paper examines the attitudinal resources utilized by Trish Regan in her two news commentaries and her online debate with her counterpart Liu Xin—a set of texts which provides a longitudinal account of how Trish has changed her attitude. By annotating the attitude resources used by Trish, positive and negative evaluations are expected to be clarified, with detailed analyses of subsystems in the Attitude System to be given. The results suggest that Trish’s attitude towards China has changed a lot in her commentaries and the debate with Liu Xin—from negative to partly positive. It also appears that Trish maintained a positive attitude towards the United States while she changed her positive attitude towards the trade war into a negative one in her debate with Liu Xin.

Keywords: Attitudinal changes; Attitude system; Trade war; News discourse. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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