The Mediatisation of the Chinese Dama in Chinese English-Language Media: A Cognitive Linguistic Approach

• Autores: Ke Li, Xingwei Miao, Gisela Redeker
• Localización: Círculo de lingüística aplicada a la comunicación, ISSN-e 1576-4737, Nº. 93, 2023 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Monográfico: Rasgos discursivos de la voz del autor en textos especializados), págs. 215-227
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.5209/clac.85569
• Enlaces
  • Texto completo
• Resumen

  • The term ‘Chinese dama’ was originally coined by the Wall Street Journal in 2013 to refer to a group of middle-aged and elderly Chinese women who, somewhat frenetically, purchased gold or other items. This study employs a cognitive-linguistic approach to critical discourse analysis to examine how Chinese damas are linguistically mediatised in the Chinese English-language news media. A specialised corpus of 41 news articles with 26661 words, covering the years between 2013 and 2019, was built for this purpose. Informed by Maslow’s ‘hierarchy of needs’ theory, four most recurrent themes of Chinese dama news discourses were identified and coded. The analysis of these discourses suggests that whilst there is divergence in how newspapers construe Chinese damas’ participation in social activities when they are agentive, there is convergence in terms of schematising the conflicts between Chinese damas and the other parties. This seems to fit with the media’s ideological framework, steering ultimately towards the legitimisation of excluding Chinese female seniors from the public realm.

• Referencias bibliográficas
  • Baker, Paul, Costas Gabrielatos, Majid Khosravinik, Michal Krzyzanowski, Tony McEnery & Ruth Wodak. (2008). A useful methodological synergy?...
  • Baker, Paul, Costas Gabrielatos & Tony McEnery. (2013). Discourse Analysis and Media Attitudes: The Representation of Islam in the British...
  • Brown, Wendy. (2015). Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution. Zone Books.
  • Cameron, Deborah. (1997). Theoretical debates in feminist linguistics: Questions of sex and gender. In: Ruth Wodak (ed.),...
  • Chan, Eugene Y. & Sam J. Maglio. (2020). The voice of cognition: Active and passive voice influence distance and construal. Personality...
  • Chen, Caroline. (2010). Dancing in the Streets of Beijing: Improvised Uses within the Urban System. In: Jeffrey Hou (ed.), Insurgent Public...
  • Croll, Elisabeth. (1980). Feminism and Socialism in China. Schocken Books.
  • Datta, Yvonne. (2010). Maslow’s hierarchy of basic needs: An ecological view. Oxford Journal, 10(1), 39-57.
  • Dirven, René, Roslyn Frank & Martin Pütz. (2003). Cognitive Models in Language and Thought: Ideology, Metaphors and Meanings. Mouton de...
  • Fairclough, Norman. (1989). Language and Power. Longman.
  • Fairclough, Norman. (1995). Media Discourse. Edward Arnold.
  • Feldshuh, Hannah. (2018). Gender, media, and myth-making: constructing China’s leftover women. Asian Journal of Communication,...
  • Fillmore, Charles J. (1982). Frame semantics. In: The Linguistic Society of Korea(ed.), Linguistics in the Morning Calm. Hanshin Press.
  • Fillmore, Charles J. & Collin F. Baker. (2010). A frames approach to semantic analysis. In: Bernd Heine & Heiko Narrog (eds.), The...
  • Fincher, Leta Hong. (2014). Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China. Zed Books.
  • Fowler, Roger. (1991). Language in the News: Discourse and Ideology in the Press. Routledge.FrameNet (n.d.) https://framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu/fndrupal/frameIndex
  • Gong, Cathy Honge, Hal Kendig & Xiaojun He. (2016). Factors predicting health services use among older people in China: An analysis...
  • Hart, Christopher. (2013). Argumentation meets adapted cognition: Manipulation in media discourse on immigration. Journal of...
  • Hart, Christopher. (2014). Construal operation on online press reports of political protests. In: Christopher Hart & Piotr Cap (eds.),...
  • Hart, Christopher. (2016). Event-Frames affect blame assignment and perception of aggression in discourse on political protests: An experimental...
  • Hjarvard, Stig. (2004). From bricks to bytes: The mediatization of a global toy industry. In: Ib Bondebjerg & Peter Golding (eds.), European...
  • Hjarvard, Stig. (2007, May 23-28). Changing media, changing language: The mediatisation of society and the spread of English and medialects...
  • Jackson, Kristi & Patricia Bazeley. (2019). Qualitative data analysis with NVivo. Sage.
  • Kang, M. Agnes & Katherine Hoi Ying Chen. (2017). Gender stereotype as a vehicle for social change? The case of the Kong Girl. Gender...
  • Hodge, Bob Robert Ian Vere & Gunther R. Kress. (1993). Language as Ideology (2nd ed.). Routledge and Kegan Paul.
  • Krotz, Friedrich (2001). The Mediatization of Communicative Action: The Change in Everyday and Social Relations, Culture and Society through...
  • Langacker, Ronald W. (1991). Foundations of Cognitive Grammar, vol. II: Descriptive Application. Stanford University Press.
  • Langacker, Ronald W. (2008). Cognitive Grammar: A Basic Introduction. Oxford University Press.Langacker, Ronald W. (2013). On Grammatical...
  • Maslow, Abraham Harold. (1943). A theory of human motivation. Psychological Review, 50(4), 370-396. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0054346
  • Matlock, Teenie, Michael Ramscar & Lera Boroditsky. (2004). The experiential basis of motion language. In: Augusto Soares da Silva, Amadeu...
  • Potter, Jonathan & Margaret Wetherell. (1987). Discourse and social psychology: Beyond attitudes and behaviour. Sage.Pun, Ngai. (2003)....
  • Radden, Günter & René Dirven. (2007). Cognitive English Grammar. John Benjamins.
  • Reisigl, Martin & Ruth Wodak. (2001). Discourse and Discrimination: Rhetorics of Racism and anti-Semitism. Routledge.
  • Rowe, John W. & Robert L. Kahn. (1997). Successful aging. The Gerontologist, 37(4), 433-440.https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/37.4.433
  • Sangwha, Lee. (1999). The patriarchy in China: An investigation of public and private spheres. Asian Journal of Women’s Studies, 5(1), 9-49....
  • Sharoff, Serge, Rapp, Reinhard, Zweigenbaum, Pierre & Pascale Fung (2013). Building and Using Comparable Corpora. Springer.
  • Sperber, Dan & Deirdre Wilson. (1981). Irony and the use-mention distinction. In: Peter Cole (ed.), Radical Pragmatics(pp. 295-318). Academic...
  • Su, Hsi-Yao. (2018). Contested words, gender norms and language ideologies: the gendered meaning of tai. Gender and Language, 12(1), 27-60....
  • Talmy, Leonard. (1988). Force Dynamics in Language and Cognition. Cognitive Science, 12, 49-100. https://doi.org/10.1207/S15516709COG1201_2
  • Tan, Joyce Beiyu & Shirley Yates. (2011). Academic expectations as sources of stress in Asian students. Social Psychology of Education,...
  • van Dijk, Teun A. (1993). Principles of critical discourse analysis. Discourse & Society, 4(2), 243-289. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926593004002006
  • van Dijk, Teun A. (1998). Ideology: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Sage.
  • Wang, Qianni. (2015). Stigma and conflict: Square dance in the crevice of time. Beijing Cultural Review, 2, 74-81.
  • Wodak, Ruth. (2006). Mediation between discourse and society: Assessing cognitive approaches in CDA. Discourse Studies, 8(1),...
  • Wong, Andrew D. (2005). The reappropriation of tongzhi. Language in Society, 34(5), 763-793. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404505050281
  • York, Qi Yan, James Huawen Shen & Yun Yang. (2020). How ‘dama’ becomes drama-assessing the ideological forces underlying...
  • Yu, Yating. (2019). Media representations of ‘leftover women’ in China: A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis. Gender and Language,...
  • Yu, Yating. (2021). Metaphorical representations of “leftover women”: Between traditional patriarchy and modern egalitarianism....
  • Zhao, Guanghuai. (2015). Imbalance in news report on Chinese damas and the bias in public opinion. Youth Journalist,36, 38-40. https://doi.org/10.15997/j.cnki.qnjz.2015.36.017
  • Zuo, Jiping & Yanjie Bian. (2005). Beyond resources and patriarchy: Marital construction of family decision-making power in post-Mao...