Critical Discourse Analysis of Cyber-bullying__in the“Liu XX Incident”

Abstract

In recent years, cyber-bullying incidents have emerged one after another, and the cyber environment has deteriorated sharply. Based on social issues, Critical Discourse Analysis analyzes the occurrence process of discourses as well as the social reasons, which can provide strong theoretical support for the study of cyber-bullying. This paper takes Critical Discourse Analysis as the theoretical framework, uses the transitivity system of Systemic Functional Grammar and AntConc 3.5.9 corpus software as analytical tools, and uses cyber-bullying and a news report related to the “Liu XX Incident” as corpus to analyze the relationship among language, power, and ideology and examine the text structure, discourse practice and sociocultural practice of cyber-bullying, providing a reference for building ahealthy and harmonious cyber environment.