VAN DIJK, TEUN A., News as Discourse Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1988. $29.95 cloth. This book attempts the development of a "new, interdisciplinary theory of news in the press" (p. vii). It represents a very ambitious and somewhat speculative effort to weave together a broad range of existing news research approaches into a coherent, heuristic framework. Van Dijk succeeds in providing a useful summary of the literature in news research. Especially valuable is his discussion of recent European research. However, the overall framework is still at an early stage of development. Its utility remains to be demonstrated by future research. For some time now, communication researchers have talked of passing paradigms and ferment in the field. With the decline of past paradigms, our discipline has been left with a hodgepodge of small-scale theories. This is particularly true in the area of news research where various narrative, discourse and information processing theories abound. Van Dijk's book may signal a new era, an era in which efforts will be made to integrate existing conceptual fragments into broader frameworks. His work may be seen as providing a model for others who seek to make sense of our current proliferation of theories. Van Dijk's approach is centered in the tradition of discourse analysis, which evolved out of an integration of literary analysis and linguistics. However, he has aggressively modified earlier forms of discourse analysis in an effort to incorporate insights into the structure and interpretation of discourse derived from cognitive psychology. He is not content to simply apply discourse analysis to the evaluation of news stories. He recognizes the utility of constructing an approach which also considers the production of news by media practitioners and the interpretation of news by audience members. It is these broader concerns which set van Dijk's approach apart from previous analyses of news content. A central concept in van Dijk's theory is the notion of story schemas, which are defined as implicit structures that underlie typical stories. These schemas permit the easy production of news and also facilitate its interpretation by news consumers. The schema concept is at once powerful and ambiguous. There is growing research evidence that demonstrates the utility of positing the existence of cognitive structures (schemas) in people's minds which are activated by content cues and guide interpretion of all forms of communication. The schema concept helps to explain why complex and seemingly ambiguous messages often are easily interpreted by audience members. It also can explain why the same message can be interpreted in highly discrepent ways. If messages contain conflicting cues that lead people to activate different schemas, or if people don't share a homogeneous set of schemas, then it is likely that many contrasting interpretations of story content will be developed. But despite growing consensus concerning the utility of schema as a concept, researchers remain quite divided over both its definition and the type of research that will lead to the most useful findings. …

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The essays in this volume examine the discourses of Cultural China from a glocalization perspective, and attempt to understand contemporary Cultural China by recording, describing and explaining its current discourses.

Discourses of Cultural China in the Globalizing Age

In an attempt to examine the issue of glocalisation in contemporary Chinese media practice, the article develops a tripartite framework which examines the discourses of global/Western vs. local/Eastern interactions in news reporting along three dimensions: the nature of the news event reported, the stance adopted in reporting the news, and the move structure involved in the reporting. The projection and discursive management of the international news reports by two prominent broadcast media channels in Cultural China, i.e. the Chinaowned and Beijing-based station, CCTV-4, and the Hong Kong-based channel station, Phoenix TV, have been selected for the investigation. It is found that globalisation in these two pan- or pro-Chinese government broadcasting practices has taken place only marginally. In trying to demonstrate a global vision and readiness for change and challenges, the Chinese broadcasters no longer evade news of a negative nature, and have also largely adopted the globally prevalent pat...

Becoming global, remaining local: the discourses of international news reporting by CCTV-4 and Phoenix TV Hong Kong

The 2019–20 Hong Kong protests have attracted more attention from the international media than its previous mass movements. The Chinese government and the Trump administration have engaged tit-for-...

Were They Illegal Rioters or Pro-democracy Protestors? Examining the 2019–20 Hong Kong Protests in China Daily and The New York Times

Using the approach of critical linguistics, this article compares and contrasts personage description in Hong Kong and mainland Chinese entertainment news discourse. Setting the texts of the news reports against the different social contexts in which they were produced, the article establishes three contrastive parameters that characterize personage reporting across the two regions: contrast in narrative values and themes - realism versus idealism ; contrast in the representation of speech by the personage - individualization versus assimilation; and contrast in the rhetoric of the text - on-line interaction versus planned exposition (fragmented versus elaborated structure). Finally, implications for further development as well as the application of critical linguistics or critical discourse analysis are presented

Personage description in Hong Kong versus mainland Chinese entertainment news discourse

Recently, TV dramas reedited by network novels have become the main content of Chinese popular culture. Based on analyzing the phenomenon of its high communication influence, the cross-media narration of the works greatly affects its communication. This study adopts the case study method, combined with the text analysis of TV dramas. This paper finds that the adaptation of online novels to film and television works is more prominent in artistic expression. This paper depicts that online novels adapt film and television works, as it may focus on the diversity of media texts through cross-media narration study.

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Study on the Emergence and Audience Preference of Chinese Drama Costume Revised by Network Novels

This paper utilizes the A-B-A-B reversal experimental design for the single-subject research, to study the self-injurious behavior of a sixth-grade student with severe autism, aiming to explore the intervention effect of sports games on the self-injury behavior of children with severe autism. The results showed that, the self-injury behavior such as, the number of times of biting the back of the hands, and picking the noses is reduced in the study subject following sports games intervention plans, however, the self-injurious still exists, especially when the study subject in an unfamiliar environment, further indicating that the self-injurious behavior of children with severe autism cannot be completely eliminated by sports games alone. Concluding that, self-injurious behavior of children with severe autism cannot be completely eliminated by sports games, a comprehensive intervention with multiple approaches is still required to achieve optimal results.

Intervention Case Study about Sports Games on the Self-injury Behavior of Children with Severe Autism

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