Image-building Markers in Small Stories: Evidence from Chinese Snooker Commentary

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10.2991/mmetss-18.2018.54How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Chinese snooker commentary; image building; small stories.

Abstract

This paper tries to discern the role of small stories in building different-nationality players’ images with the focus primarily on the content analysis of appellations and tenses. The discoursal analysis shows that the linguistic construction of the Chinese player’s image is more diverse than that of the foreign player’s and the commentators usually show a strong inclination towards building the Chinese player as a promising winner overtly, while building the foreign player as an ultimate loser covertly.

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© 2018, 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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AU  - Cong-cong Wang
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DA  - 2018/11
TI  - Image-building Markers in Small Stories: Evidence from Chinese Snooker Commentary
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 3rd International Conference on Modern Management, Education Technology, and Social Science (MMETSS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 256
EP  - 259
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/mmetss-18.2018.54
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