Drawing on the insights from multimodal critical discourse analysis,this study mainly focuses on two super-gerontic celebrities by selecting 60 videos to elucidate how their images are represented through linguistic(e...Drawing on the insights from multimodal critical discourse analysis,this study mainly focuses on two super-gerontic celebrities by selecting 60 videos to elucidate how their images are represented through linguistic(e.g.,captions,and hashtags)and other semiotic resources(e.g.,accessories,semiotic tools,and etc.).The findings suggest that images of the old celebrities are characterized as being attractive,wise,stylish,healthy and young,indicating that they are breaking up the stereotypical images of old people who are unattractive,dependent and senile.The phenomenon of old influencers making themselves visible on the social media suggests that they are moving towards successful aging with the backdrop of aging society in China.This present study suggests that multimodal construction of old celebrities can inform relevant practice to combat ageism in the media and helps to empower the old people in the media discourse.In doing so,the pedagogical implication of present study lies in its education about how we view aging in the aging society.展开更多
This paper explores news coverage in two media: print and electronic. The discourse analysis represents differences in general structure,images attached,and texts of specific print and electronic media.
Starting from an etymological analysis of rape in the Indo-European language family,we want to trace the historical and semantic roots of this lexeme,in order to review its semantic and pragmatic development in the pe...Starting from an etymological analysis of rape in the Indo-European language family,we want to trace the historical and semantic roots of this lexeme,in order to review its semantic and pragmatic development in the perception of Italian speakers.Our aim is to read and understand the rape victim socio-cultural stigma in collective imagination.It is therefore possible to reconstruct the lexical,socio-semiotic,and narrative domain anticipating the phenomenology of victim blaming,which characterizes the media narratives of sexual violence.The victimological profile,socially expected and culturally accepted,seems to support the original semantic connotation of the Latin word stuprum,that is“corruption of virginity”,“contamination of purity”.Many typical mainstream discourses examined,through special“gender lenses”,provide portraits of imperfect,ambiguous,unreliable victims because they are deemed guilty of not being holy enough.展开更多
The study explores linguistic and media genre characteristics of the British, U.S. and Georgian print media. Theoretical apparatus of media studies and other interdisciplinary linguistic fields were employed for compa...The study explores linguistic and media genre characteristics of the British, U.S. and Georgian print media. Theoretical apparatus of media studies and other interdisciplinary linguistic fields were employed for comparative analysis of genre characteristics. The paper is part of a longitudinal study of print media genres over the period of 2002-2010. The aim of the research is to(a) define and compare genre characteristics of the British, U.S. and Georgian print media,(b) examine and define structural and linguistic(semantic, pragmatic, semiotic) characteristics of the British, U.S. and Georgian quality newspaper genres,(c) define deictic composition of newspaper articles and(d) study expression of coded meanings in media texts. In this paper, I will focus on two major genres of quality print media: news and features. The media genres are analysed within the theoretical framework of pragmatics, semantics, semiotics and media studies.展开更多
文摘Drawing on the insights from multimodal critical discourse analysis,this study mainly focuses on two super-gerontic celebrities by selecting 60 videos to elucidate how their images are represented through linguistic(e.g.,captions,and hashtags)and other semiotic resources(e.g.,accessories,semiotic tools,and etc.).The findings suggest that images of the old celebrities are characterized as being attractive,wise,stylish,healthy and young,indicating that they are breaking up the stereotypical images of old people who are unattractive,dependent and senile.The phenomenon of old influencers making themselves visible on the social media suggests that they are moving towards successful aging with the backdrop of aging society in China.This present study suggests that multimodal construction of old celebrities can inform relevant practice to combat ageism in the media and helps to empower the old people in the media discourse.In doing so,the pedagogical implication of present study lies in its education about how we view aging in the aging society.
文摘This paper explores news coverage in two media: print and electronic. The discourse analysis represents differences in general structure,images attached,and texts of specific print and electronic media.
文摘Starting from an etymological analysis of rape in the Indo-European language family,we want to trace the historical and semantic roots of this lexeme,in order to review its semantic and pragmatic development in the perception of Italian speakers.Our aim is to read and understand the rape victim socio-cultural stigma in collective imagination.It is therefore possible to reconstruct the lexical,socio-semiotic,and narrative domain anticipating the phenomenology of victim blaming,which characterizes the media narratives of sexual violence.The victimological profile,socially expected and culturally accepted,seems to support the original semantic connotation of the Latin word stuprum,that is“corruption of virginity”,“contamination of purity”.Many typical mainstream discourses examined,through special“gender lenses”,provide portraits of imperfect,ambiguous,unreliable victims because they are deemed guilty of not being holy enough.
文摘The study explores linguistic and media genre characteristics of the British, U.S. and Georgian print media. Theoretical apparatus of media studies and other interdisciplinary linguistic fields were employed for comparative analysis of genre characteristics. The paper is part of a longitudinal study of print media genres over the period of 2002-2010. The aim of the research is to(a) define and compare genre characteristics of the British, U.S. and Georgian print media,(b) examine and define structural and linguistic(semantic, pragmatic, semiotic) characteristics of the British, U.S. and Georgian quality newspaper genres,(c) define deictic composition of newspaper articles and(d) study expression of coded meanings in media texts. In this paper, I will focus on two major genres of quality print media: news and features. The media genres are analysed within the theoretical framework of pragmatics, semantics, semiotics and media studies.
