Othering the rural: About the construction of rural masculinities and the unspoken urban hegemonic ideal in Swedish media

Studies within the field of rural geography have lately to a noticeable extent enriched the theme of the creation of masculinities and femininities focussing on social constructions of the rural, as well as social constructions of gender. In this study I aim to discuss some expressed discourses of the rural in order to illuminate the power relation between the urban and the rural and the spatial implications of the construction of masculinities and femininities.Taking three Swedish television productions as a point of departure, I will argue that an urban hegemony exists and that the programmes reveal how rural masculinities are constructed. The aim is firstly to add a spatial dimension to the constructions of masculinities, and secondly to show how media builds up and emphasises a gap between the rural and the urban in these constructions. Cutting-edge media is of interest, as it is active in reproducing certain practices and also in identifying who is following the norm and who is deviating from it. The three television productions highlight the construction of rural masculinities in terms of seeking help and being ‘backward’; that rural men are unequal and traditional as well as deviating and out of place.     

Staging language: An introduction to the sociolinguistics of performance

Staged performance involves the overt, scheduled identification and elevation of one or more people to perform, with a clearly demarcated distinction between them and the audience. It involves the agentive use of language, building on the foundation of existing social meanings. Staged performances tend to be linguistically stylized, pushing the limits of language creativity. They have the potential to trigger significant sociolinguistic effects, circulating novel forms and contributing to language change. The paradigms used in this theme issue for approaching language performance include Bakhtin's notion of Stylization, Bell's Audience and Referee Design, Silverstein's Indexicality, Agha's Enregisterment, and Bauman's construct of Discursive Culture. Themes that run through the articles include: a concept of identity that is part product, part process; the centrality of the audience; the reflexivity of staged performance; and the importance of non‐linguistic modalities such as music and appearance. The language analysis in this collection of papers concentrates mainly on phonological features of varieties of English, finding instances of selectivity, mis‐realization, overshoot and undershoot in their performances of a range of targeted dialects.     

阿拉伯媒体中的中国形象分析

作为软实力的重要组成部分,良好的国家形象有助于促进国际交流合作和发挥国际影响力,实现自身发展利益。基于此,本文选择2010年1月至2011年1月《金字塔报》、《利雅得报》和半岛电视台这三家阿拉伯世界具有代表性的媒体,以"中国崛起"和"人民币汇率"问题为考察点,解读中国在阿拉伯媒体中的国家形象及其形成过程,并阐述其形成的原因,最后提出了中国改善和加强国家形象构建的六点建议。     

When conflict fuels negativity. A large-scale comparative investigation of the contextual drivers of negative campaigning in elections worldwide

We investigate the contextual conditions under which campaigns in elections worldwide are fought “negatively”, that is, rely on attacks against political opponents. We test the overarching intuition that societal, political, and cultural conflicts in the country are associated with greater negativity in election campaigns; conflicts, we argue, sow political discord. We test this intuition via a large-scale comparative dataset that covers 136 national elections across more than 100 countries worldwide that happened between June 2016 and March 2020, based on the expert judgments of more than 2000 scholars - to the best of our knowledge, the single largest comparative dataset about the content of elections worldwide. Our results show that countries in which elections are fought under a majoritarian or plurality rule tend to witness higher campaign negativity, and so are countries characterized by higher income inequality, deeper ethnic fragmentation, and higher individualism. Similarly, election competitiveness and ideological diversity of competing actors both tend to be associated with a greater use of negative campaigning, and so is news media preference for sensationalism.     

试论媒体评论的效益

媒体评论的效益研究,一直比较薄弱。现有的媒体评论效益研究,主要从宏观层面分析其积极的一面,缺乏应有的维度和深度。实际上,评论的社会效益有“正”、“负”两类。媒体评论不仅具有显著的社会意义,也能够给媒体和作者带来直接或间接的经济收益,其社会责任和效益是媒体评论的客观属性,二者只有协调共存,才能有助于和谐社会的构建。     

事实不容扭曲——从拉萨“3.14”事件看西方新闻媒体的表现

2008年拉萨“3．14”打砸抢烧事件发生后,CNN、BBC、法国《世界报》、《德国画报》等有影响的媒体,不辨真伪,以讹传讹,推波助澜,严重的损坏了中国的国际形象。其抹黑中国,遏制中国,甚至破坏北京奥运会的用心昭然若揭;从新闻学的角度来看,这些报道是对真实性原则的践踏,是对新闻职业道德的违背,是倾向性的异化,是阶级性的集中表现。     

交流的无奈：自媒体时代的英美文学教学改革探索

英美文学处于教学的边缘位置已是不争的事实。而传统的课堂教学并不能保证交流有效的畅通。本文力图探讨新媒体于传统英美文学课教学改革的可能性,即在媒介发展日新月异的今天,新媒体可以于课堂教学之外构筑师生交流的另一通道,将交流的时间和空间延长到虚拟空间,促进学生通过文学的自主学习达到语言技巧的提高和知识的同步增长.     

政治辩论中情态隐喻语用功能分析

以2004年布什和克里的第一场总统辩论赛文本为语料,尝试着把情态隐喻作为一种视角,分析政治辩论语篇中情态隐喻的语用功能。试图说明情态隐喻不仅是政治辩论的一种语言特色,而且对实现辩论的目的有着重要的作用。认识到这一点,可以加深英语学习者对目标语的理解和感悟,有效地改进他们对目标语的运用和提高他们的交际能力。     

新媒介时代民族地区对外传播刍议——以四川凉山彝族自治州为例

民族地区积极充分利用各种传媒资源,特别是以互联网为代表的新媒介,努力创新传播方式和内容,加强对外传播渠道建设,扩大传播的辐射面,提高传播的质量和影响力,把民族地区真实的生存状态对外传播,引起外界的关注和支持,十分必要。     

消费者搜寻信息努力与影响因素的实证研究——以广告媒体为中心

结果表明,在被假设的广告媒体搜寻信息努力与五个影响因素之间的关系中,四个因素即搜寻态度(+)、自我卷入(+)、产品知识(-)、时间压力(-)与广告媒体搜寻信息努力之间有关系。而消费者感知风险与广告媒体搜寻信息努力之间没有关系。