A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis of the journalistic construction of pension reform policies in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Chang, Tzu-An, 張慈安
• Other Authors: Wang, Su-Mei
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96uz42

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 新聞學系 === 106 === The research investigates Taiwanese news outlets’ discursive strategies in their reports on pension reform policies. I choose straight news, features, and editorials that included the keywords “pension reform” from 2016 to 2017 in the United Daily News and the Liberty Times, two major newspaper outlets that positioned rivalry political stances. I use a corpus assisted critical discourse analysis, especially the discourse-historical approach, to analyze the selected reports. I discover that two news outlets broadly support the policies while the United Daily News had shifted position twice during policies forming periods. Two news outlets perform objective and separated attitudes in straight news by nominating identical terms with judicial and official ones and predicating few adjectives in titles. Two news outlets argue, frame, intensify and mitigate in features and editorials to perform their positions towards pension reform policies. To safeguard their positions, two news outlets refer to different meanings using identical terms including politicians, stakeholders, and related political institutions performing terminological conflicts because of policies’ forming periods, reports’ issuing timing and reports’ texts. The United Daily News refers to pension reform as policies mending defects in our old age economic security systems. The Liberty Times refers to pension reform as policies mending pension differences between military personnel, public servants, educators and labors.