ERIC Number: EJ954870
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
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Constructing a Fairy Tale around Intercultural Couplehood on Chinese Television
Dervin, Fred; Gao, Minghui
Language and Intercultural Communication, v12 n1 p6-23 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) differences are used by the participants to enact the couple's identification. We take a dynamic "liquid" approach to linguistic discourse analysis, through dialogism and utterance theory, to identify the voices and the related discursive strategies that contribute to create and "imagine" the couple. (Contains 2 tables and 4 notes.)
Descriptors: Television Research, Discourse Analysis, Fairy Tales, Television, Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Cultural Background, Intercultural Communication, Programming (Broadcast), Marriage
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Armenia; China
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