Meaning Generation in Chinese Official Media Discourse
- 200 pages
- English
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Meaning Generation in Chinese Official Media Discourse
About this book
Drawing on approaches from Linguistic Pragmatics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Social Actor Representation Theory, and Framing Theory, this book critically explores the various linguistic devices and pragmatic strategies that concern meaning generation in the context of Chinese official media discourse.
The volume rests on eight chapters thatāusing different analytical lenses, with either a culture-specific perspective or a cross-cultural oneātake language analysis as their point of departure, in order to investigate how meaning is generated in situated discourse, such as media accounts about specific issues within the socio-political, cultural, or economic sphere. Each chapter is empirically grounded, and either focuses on a specific genre, such as the documentary and the press conference, or explores social and political events and initiatives that have been topical in recent years: the Covid-19 and SARS crises, the US-China trade conflict, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), and the 2021 Hong Kong electoral system reform.
By bringing back the linguistic analysis to the core of the analytical approach, the volume shows the interconnection of text and context, reminding the reader about the key role of language users both on the production and reception side.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars interested in the relation between language and politics and, in particular, in understanding meaning-making and meaning-moulding processes in discourses articulated in an official Chinese context aimed both internally and internationally.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- A Return to Basics: Language as the Quintessential Building Block of Meaning Generation
- 1 A Public Sphere of Meaning Negotiation: The Interpreter-mediated Chinese Premierās Press Conferences:
- 2 Framing in Chinese and American Media Editorials about the Sino-US Trade Conflict
- 3 āRough Winds, Big Wavesā: Metaphors and Legitimacy in the Renminwang News Commentaries on the COVID-19 Crisis
- 4 Official Framing of Public Health Emergencies: Metaphor Use in the Renmin Ribao during COVID-19 and SARS:
- 5 Public Interest and Trust: Chinese Official Media Discourse in an Epidemic Context
- 6 Justification for Reforming Hong Kongās Electoral System after the Introduction of the National Security Law
- 7 Critical Discourse Analysis of the Headlines about the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership in the China Daily, The Jakarta Times, and The Straits Times
- 8 Like āSpring Breeze and Rainā: Exploring Legitimation in a Chinese Official Documentary on Education:
- (Un)Changed Melodies: Meaning Generation as Variations on a Theme:
- Index