Constructing Gender in Chinese Media Discourse

摘要

This study explores the discourse practice of constructing gender in the Chinesemedia. Fifty-eight sample discourses are chosen for analysis, which cover a widerange of daily life topics. Two modes of media analysis (CA and CDA) are adopted.Drawing on a range of work in CDA tradition, in pragmatics and in systemic-functional linguistics, as well as in the sociological field, this study takes sometentative steps towards the development of an operational framework for criticaldiscourse analysis.In this study, we suggest two aspects of discourse perspective:the situationalposition and the habitual position. Discourse perspective manifests itself at differentlanguage levels in the form of discourse perspective indicators. The aim of this studyis to examine tbe applicability of critical linguistic analytical tools to Chinesediscourse analysis and to understand the dynamic interaction between Chinese mediadiscourse and the prevailing gender ideology. Four discourse types (Per-D and Inf-D,M-D and F-D) are distinguished and examined in this study.The results show the immense power of the entrenched traditional gender ideologyand the role of media in reproducing and perpetuating it. On the one hand, althoughWomen are no longer the

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter One A Review of Gender Studies

1.1 Sociological Studies of Gender

1.2 Feminist Perspective on Language

1.3 Media Kesearch and the Gender Issue

1.3.1 The Impact of the Media

1.3.2 The Media Portrayals of Gender Kole

1.4 Critical Discourse Analysis and The Gender Issue

1.5 Gender Studies in China

1.5.1 Sociological Gender Studies

1.5.2 Media Portrayals of Gender and Gender Consciousness

1.5.3 Current Linguistic Gender Studies

Chapter Two Approaches to Media Analysis

2.1 Content Analysis Approach

2.2 Critical Discourse Analysis Approach

2.2.1 Differences between CDA and DA

2.2.2 Major Frameworks and Conceptions

2.2.3 Defining the Term of Discourse, Ideology and Critical Used in This Study

2.3 Developing a Concept of Discourse Perspective

2.3.1 The Notion of Perspective

2.3.2 Perspective in Discourse

Chapter Three The Discourse Perspective Indicators

3.1 The Perspective Indicators in English Discourse

3.1.1 The Transitivity Model Kevisited

3.1.2 The System Network for Representing Social Actors

3.1.3 Presupposition

3.1.4. Intertextuality and Other Analytical Categories

3.2 The Perspective Indicators in Chinese Discourse

3.2.1 Ideological Point of View

3.2.2 The Transitivity System

3.2.3 Presupposition

3.2.4 Intertextulaity

3.2.5 Modal Verb

3.2.6 Ideological Logic of Discourse

Chapter Four An Analysis of Fifty-eight Chinese Media Discourses

4.1 The Media Landscape of China

4.2 Data and Scope of the Analysis

4.3 Content Analysis

4.3.1 The Roles of the Characters and the Settings

4.3.2 The Attributes and Concerns of the Male and Female Characters

4.3.3 The knowledge Types of Quotes in Headlines

4.3.4 The Subtopics of 10 Parallel Discourses

4.3.5 The Visual Images

4.4 Critical Linguistic Analysis

4.4.1 The Systems of Social Actor Representation

4.4.2 Implicature, Modal Verb, Presupposition and Bridging Inference

4.4.3 Intertextuality

4.3.4 Ideological Logic of Discourse

4.5 Summary and Discussion

Conclusion

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