The National Consciousness and Media Discourse Events─The Case of Songwriter Hou Dejian’s Return to Chian in 1980s.

• Main Authors: Yang, Jia-Min, 楊鎵民
• Other Authors: 唐士哲
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/cu2w85

碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 電訊傳播研究所 === 103 === This study focuses on media discourses and the construction of nationalism,through analyzing how mainstream newspapers and Tangwai magazines (黨外雜誌) report “Hou Dejian’s return to China in 1983”. In order to highlight different political tendency of news, ideology, and social context through media’s discourses, this study apples Fairclough’s three levels of social analysis: social events, social practices, and social structures. The thesis suggests that their representation of this event was various due to the unequal degree of political control between mainstream newspapers and Tangwai magazines in the period of martial law. At the beginning of this event, mainstream newspapers generally understated Hou’s return. They tended to personalize the motivation of Hou’s return, and avoided mentioning the complex of his national identity. Still some “different” media discourses between newspapers, walks on the edge of government’s sensitive nerve. On the contrary, Tangwai magazines used a lot of space to discuss Hou’s national identity complex, and the complex resulted in the complicated emotions of national identity between Chinese Consciousness (中國意識) and Taiwanese Consciousness (台灣意識). These show the particularity of the construction of Taiwanese Consciousness in 1980s.