This is a qualitative study that presents the findings of a linguistic analysis on American online news on the conflicts of the South China Sea from 2014-2015. The research has applied Fairclough‟s three-dimension framework and Halliday‟s Systemic functional grammar to identify and explain how American ideologies are portrayed and represented through language used in the American online news written by the American reporters. In this research the writer used the descriptive method to study the problem. There were ten newspapers collected from some wellknown online websites such as CNN, Los Angeles Times, NBC News, New York Times and Center for Strategic and International Studies. The use of transitivity, metaphors and negative sentences are analyzed to see how ideologies of the journalists are embedded in the news. The findings reveal clearly the ideologies of the American that they are in approval of law-based, equal and anti-hegemonic policy towards the South China Sea conflicts
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This is a qualitative study that presents the findings of a linguistic analysis on American online news on the conflicts of the South China Sea from 2014-2015. The research has applied Fairclough‟s three-dimension framework and Halliday‟s Systemic functional grammar to identify and explain how American ideologies are portrayed and represented through language used in the American online news written by the American reporters. In this research the writer used the descriptive method to study the problem. There were ten newspapers collected from some wellknown online websites such as CNN, Los Angeles Times, NBC News, New York Times and Center for Strategic and International Studies. The use of transitivity, metaphors and negative sentences are analyzed to see how ideologies of the journalists are embedded in the news. The findings reveal clearly the ideologies of the American that they are in approval of law-based, equal and anti-hegemonic policy towards the South China Sea conflicts
