Transitive Analysis of News Reports on Covid-19 of New York Times From the Perspective of Ideological Tendency

As an important meta-function in Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) proposed by Halliday, the ideational function sets an effective model to do critical discourse analysis. This paper attempts to use transitivity theory to analyze two New York Times reports on the double standard of the lockdown against Coronavirus in China and Italy. The study explores the ideological tendency in American news reports, which shows great disparity between the West Media and China.