Carrying a Torch: The Beijing Olympic Torch Relay in the British and Chinese Media
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1. Verfasser: Yang, Mei (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften 2014
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Cover; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Chapter 1. Olympism in media discourse; Chapter 2. Olympic Torch Relay and China and Britain in modern Olympic history; Chapter 3. Olympism, liberalism and harmony; Chapter 4. Media studies; Chapter 5. Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis; Chapter 6. Frequency and Concordance Analysis; Chapter 7. Diachronic study ; Chapter 8. Contrasting the socio-political contexts; Chapter 9. Conclusion
Appendix. Concordance Analysis of ""media, Olympic, journey, flame, human, torch, torchbearer, Athens, Beijing"" and ""London""Bibliography; Index
The Olympic torch relay held before the 2008 Games was the moment when East met West on the media stage. This book analyses the torch relay and its representation, offering a discursive construction of Olympic ideology by and through the media in both East and West. The author argues that the discourse used by the media in different social contexts reflected the diversity of ideologies and cultural values with which the Olympic flame was imbued. A corpus-based Discourse-Historical Approach in Critical Discourse Analysis (DHA-CDA) is applied to media discourse in the United Kingdom and in China
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (280 p.)
ISBN:3035303983
9783035303988

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