Critical discourse analysis of transitivity in economic news

Conveying changes and trends in the world economy, economic news reports have influenced readers’ attitudes of specific economic activities. Based on transitivity theory of Systemic-Functional Grammar, this paper makes a qualitative and quantitative research of the composition of six processes of transitivity in the BBC Economic News “China’ s debt mountain: Should we worry?”, aiming to explore the ideology behind it and their attitudes towards China’s economy.