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Sharma, Bal Krishna – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2019
In this article, I discuss how mediatised tourism constructs various discourses of othering through representations of the 'tourist self' vis-à-vis the 'local other'. In order to do so, I analyze a six-hour travelogue "Himalaya with Michael Palin" broadcast by the BBC in 2004. The analysis shows that despite the forces of globalisation…
Descriptors: Tourism, Multilingualism, Programming (Broadcast), Stereotypes
Wang, Yangting – CALICO Journal, 2019
This study investigated the effects of different types of captions on English as a Foreign Language Learners' (EFL) vocabulary learning and comprehension. Eighty students in a Chinese university participated. Students were divided into four groups with two classes of freshmen, one class of juniors, and one class of graduate students. Each group…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Television
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Hu, Chunyu; Tan, Jinlin – English Language Teaching, 2017
As an interactional encounter between a journalist and one or more newsworthy public figures, an interview program is a special type of discourse that is full of evaluative language. This paper sets out to explore evaluation in interview programs from the perspective of appraisal system. The corpus software used in this study is UAM CorpusTool…
Descriptors: Interviews, Journalism, Discourse Analysis, Audience Awareness
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Wang, Yiwen – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
Looking at the development of China dating programs, "If You Are The One" in Jiang Su satellite TV is the heated program drawing much attention from the public. There are some papers focusing on the dialogue in the program from the perspective of linguistic features or pragmatic function, but there are few papers on the refusal speech…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Dating (Social), Foreign Countries, Pragmatics
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Huabin, Wang – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2018
As one of the most widespread linguistic phenomena, code-switching has attracted increasing attention nowadays. Inspired by previous studies in this field, this paper addresses code-switching under the guidance of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), with the primary goal of analysing the interpersonal meanings of code-switching in three TV…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Television, Programming (Broadcast), Interpersonal Communication
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Dervin, Fred; Gao, Minghui – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2012
Research on intercultural couplehood often relies on cultures and "solid identities" to explain the couples' experiences. By looking at the media construction of an intercultural couple on Chinese television, we are interested in how they are presented and co-constructed through different perspectives, especially if and how (cultural)…
Descriptors: Television Research, Discourse Analysis, Fairy Tales, Television