A Comparative Study of Discursive Constructions of Chinese Smog Documentary in American and Chinese News coverage

• Li, Qiuyang ^[1] ; Yang, Ya ^[1]
  1. [1] Xiangtan University

     Xiangtan University

     China

     
• Localización: Círculo de lingüística aplicada a la comunicación, ISSN-e 1576-4737, Nº. 75, 2018 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Monográfico: Macrosintaxis del español: unidades y estructuras), págs. 205-228
• Idioma: español
• DOI: 10.5209/CLAC.61353
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  • 中美新闻报道对中国雾霾纪录片话语构建的对比研究摘要摘要摘要
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    This article investigates the corpus-based discourse study of the representations of smog documentary Under the Dome in five Chinese media (Xinhua News, People’s Daily, China News, Guangming Daily and Caijing Net) and four American media (The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and USA Today). It is found that dialectical relationship between discourse and culture, discourse and politics as exemplified by the historical issues, various linguistic forms and discursive strategies. The findings suggest that Chinese media discourse about Chai’s smog documentary tends to be unitary, while American media discourse focuses on the whole story of the event and constructs an integrated discourse event with diverse perspectives. American news reports inclined to take a determinative attitude to accuse Chinese government’ censorship while Chinese news report focuses on expressing people’s emotion and opinion toward the smog documentary and Chai Jing.

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    本文借助语料库方法考察中美媒体对雾霾纪录片《穹顶之下》的话语再现。通过对历时事件、语言形式和话语策略的研究发现话语与文化、话语与政治的辩证关系。研究结果表明，中国媒体有关雾霾纪录片报道的新闻话语趋向于单一化，美国媒体话语则聚焦于整个事件，通过多角度构建整个话语事件。美国新闻报道更倾向于指责中国政府对该雾霾纪录片的监管，而中国新闻报道更侧重于表达民众对该纪录片的情感和观点。

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