The study aims to: Investigate some common textual patterns and their signaling devices in Disease outbreak online news (DONs) in English and Vietnamese; find out the similarities and differences between the textual patterns and signaling devices in DONs in English and Vietnamese.

The study aims to: Investigate American ideologies embedded in some American online news on the conflicts in the South China Sea from 2014-2015; raise a critical awareness for the language learners and newspaper readers; explore the American reporters underlying ideologies through analyzing the linguistic features of the news reports, which also present the close link between ideologies and media language.