%0 Journal Article %T Comparative Discourse Analysis between English and Chinese News Texts£º By using functional grammar to analyze the textile dispute report In People¡¯s Daily and New York Times %A Su GAO %J Canadian Social Science %D 2007 %I Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture %X Halliday¡¯s systemic-functional grammar has been not only applied in English text analysis, but also in Chinese text analysis. This paper aims at comparatively analyzing English and Chinese in two influential newspapers from the perspective of three metafuctions in systemic-functional grammar. It is also hoped that this paper could be a further test for the applicability of systemic-functional grammar. Key words: systemic-functional grammar, comparative analysis, English and Chinese news texts R¨¦sum¨¦: La grammaire fonctionnelle syst¨¦mique de M.K.Halliday sert non seulement ¨¤ analyser le discours anglais, mais ¨¦galement sert d¡¯un bon cadre th¨¦orique pour l¡¯analyse du disours chinois. L¡¯article pr¨¦sent, commen ant par les trois m¨¦ta-fonctions de Halliday, proc¨¨de ¨¤ une analyse comparative des diff¨¦rences de mod¨¨le entre le discours anglais et le discours chinois dans les m¨¦dias. L¡¯auteur esp¨¨re v¨¦rifier par cette analyse la faisabilit¨¦ et l¡¯utilit¨¦ de la grammaire fonctionnelle syst¨¦mique. Mots-Cl¨¦s: grammaire fonctionnelle syst¨¦mique, analyse comparative, textes de nouvelle anglais et chinois %U http://cscanada.net/index.php/css/article/view/535