Study on the Event Framework with the Headlines of Local English News Reports on COVID-19 Vaccine -Taking the WeChat official account DongguanToday as an example

Abstract

 The digitization of news media is greatly accelerated due to the impact of COVID-19. The dissemination of local English news on vaccination makes a great contribution to the effective implementation of national epidemic prevention and control for foreign nationals. As a practical means, it is necessary to study the English news of local WeChat official accounts during the epidemic period. News headlines are an important application of event framework in semantics. Through sorting out and analyzing event types, event elements, and event structures, this paper tries to understand the event framework of news headlines of the COVID-19 vaccine and how they convey media views, attitudes, and values. In sum, the event types under this theme are mainly existential events and relational events, and the most important event element is the participant. The event structure presents a progressive structure of the scene.