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Metaphor and entertainment : a corpus-based approach to language in Chinese online news / Chong Han.
Van Pelt Library P94.65.C6 M48 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Han, Chong, 1982- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Internet--Social aspects--China.
- Internet.
- Language and culture--China.
- Language and culture.
- Sociolinguistics.
- Social media.
- Metaphor--Social aspects.
- Metaphor.
- Mass media and culture.
- Mass media--Social aspects.
- Internet--Social aspects.
- China.
- Mass media--Social aspects--China.
- Mass media.
- Mass media and culture--China.
- Metaphor--Social aspects--China.
- Social media--China.
- Popular culture--China.
- Popular culture.
- Sociolinguistics--China.
- China--Languages.
- Language and languages.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 180 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Summary:
- The internet has changed the way news media write about various issues and disseminate information and opinions. It has reshaped the way people look for leisure and pleasure. Metaphor and Entertainment investigates the online language practice of a relatively new genre of news writing in contemporary China: online entertainment news. It focuses, in particular, on the patterns of metaphor, which are used to inform the rhetorical goal of providing readers with the latest information about the popular entertainment industry (cinema, TV and pop music), while entertaining them. The author argues that these patterns of metaphor are products of the changing landscape of Chinese society. They reveal an emergent discourse pattern where mainstream media discourse interacts with and is constantly reshaped by China's literary legacy and the public/grassroots discourse. This cutting-edge analysis will be of interest to scholars and students dealing with media discourse, metaphor and Chinese language. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Entertainment news genre in China
- Researching metaphor in Chinese
- Metaphor analysis and news corpora
- Metaphor and onlookers
- Entertainment
- Metaphor and creative and playful entertainment
- Metaphor in Chinese entertainmentalised news
- Metaphor, entertainment & contemporary China.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137298034
- 1137298030
- OCLC:
- 852224836
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