Discussion on the Reportage of Left-behind Children from the Perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis: A Case Study of China Daily

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210902.027How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Critical discourse analysis, Left-behind children, Dialectical relation theory, Media image

Abstract

The acceleration of urbanization has led to the imbalance between urban and rural resource distribution, the continuous flow of rural labor to cities, and the gradual increase of left-behind children. The difficulties in life and education faced by left-behind children have received extensive attention from the government, society, non-profit organizations, and the media. News reports serve as a key channel for the masses to perceive and understand the status of left-behind children. Based on Fairclough’s theory of dialectical relations, this paper builds a corpus to analyze the transitivity, modality of five reports on left behind children in China Daily, and to analyze the discourse strategies at the levels of discourse practice and social cultural practice. This research extends the discourse analysis from the register to the practical field, which expects to arouse widespread public attention to the group of left-behind children, and enhance the reader’s critical sensitivity and awareness. From a macroscopic perspective, this research plays a reference role for the media to the construction of the image of left-behind children and the logical construction of news discourses. To a certain extent, this paper can prompt the media to fulfill their obligations of creating an objective, authoritative and authentic information environment for the public. The revelations about the problems pertaining to left-behind children in the media are likely to bring about satisfactory solutions to them.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Weize Tang
AU  - Beibei Guan
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/09/04
TI  - Discussion on the Reportage of Left-behind Children from the Perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis: A Case Study of China Daily
BT  - Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities. (Philosophy of Being Human as the Core of Interdisciplinary Research) (ICCESSH 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 161
EP  - 166
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210902.027
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