隐喻、框架视阈下污名化的华人生存境遇

On Living Conditions of the Stigmatized Chinese From the Perspective of Metaphor and Frame

纪录片《六人——泰坦尼克上的中国幸存者》以口述历史档案的形式,按照叙事主题之间的关联性把碎片式素材进行联想式的串联,聚焦泰坦尼克号海难之后幸存的六位华人的生存轨迹,以及其逃生经历被刻意抹去的原因。文章利用当代认知隐喻与媒体框架理论对影片《排华法案》背景下的西方政治话语进行批评分析,揭示排华性隐喻修辞与媒体框架构建背后的个体及社会认知动因,关照当下西方媒体的叙事策略,展示被“污名化”的在美华人的生存境遇。

In the form of oral historical files,the documentary film “Six People — Chinese Survivors on the Titanic” links fragmented materials in an associative way according to the relevance of narrative themes,focusing on the survival tracks of the six Chinese survivors after the Titanic shipwreck and the reasons why their escape experiences were deliberately erased.This paper uses the theory of contemporary cognitive metaphor and media framework to critically analyze the western political discourse in the context of the film “Chinese Exclusion Act”,reveals the individual and social cognitive motivation behind the rhetoric of “Chinese Exclusion” metaphor and the construction of media framework,cares about the narrative strategy of the current western media,and shows the “stigmatized” survival situation of Chinese Americans.