Full Description
As a country in transition, Chinese news discourse has quite distinctive characteristics, and more so given the power of state media in society. With China's engagement in world affairs and its massive Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) now in place, Western media coverage of China has dramatically increased. Against this backdrop, news dissemination and discourse demonstrate a need for academia to give perspectives with interdisciplinary approaches. Chinese News Discourse presents original research from academics in China and the West, showing theoretical, methodological and practical dimensions between news media and discourse.
The book focuses on Chinese news discourse by examining what new modern features it demonstrates in contrast and comparison to news discourses in other countries in the coverage of such hot topics as the BRI or the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China, just to name a few.
This book is a useful resource for scholars and students of discourse, language, media and communication studies, as well as translation studies.
Contents
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of contributors
Introduction
PART I Generating news in China
Chapter 1
Sustaining state legitimacy in the punch of political scandals: a case study of local newspapers in China
Chapter 2
Public diplomacy strategies represented domestically through ports along the twenty-firsr century Maritime Silk Road: a case study of Ningbo Zhoushan Port
Chapter 3
A survey of Chinese photojournalists: identities, work conditions and attitudes in the digital age
PART II Chinese news discourse
Chapter 4
Recontextualizing political metaphor in news discourse: a case study of the Chinese president's metaphors in English reports
Chapter 5
What newspapers and people say about #China70: news discourse and framing through social media
Chapter 6
China Daily infographics: metaphor, multimodality and the multi-layering of news discourse
PART III News translation pedagogy
Chapter 7
News translation strategies adopted by novice and expert translators: implications for translation pedagogy
Chapter 8
A social constructivist approach to acquiring international news translation norms in China: empowering students in a restrained environment
Chapter 9
Developing translation competence: a curricular study of teaching of news translation
Index
