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Attitudes Toward Women in Media Discourse -- Discourse Construction with "Leftover Women" as an Example

Liu YinuoZhongyuan University of Technology* Yang WenqiGuangxi University for Nationalities

* Corresponding author: [email protected]

Abstract

The media first proposed the term “leftover women” and then spread it on the Internet. Ex-isting studies on “leftover women” mainly focus on traditional media, such as newspapers and TV, and rarely involve “we media”. Through text analysis and comparative research method, this paper conducts a comparative study on the discourse attitudes of official me-dia and private media towards women and the media images they construct. According to the data citation and case analysis, the following results are concluded: the official media’s construction of the image of “leftover women” is relatively rigid and simple, and the report-ing plate mainly focuses on the entertainment part. Due to the relative freedom of speech, private media create a more diversified image, and the mode is mainly personal Posting, re-lying on traffic to spread. To a certain extent, this paper fills in the research of “leftover women” in the field of “we media” and puts forward suggestions on how to create the me-dia image of “leftover women” more objectively.

Keywords: media; leftover women; discourse construction
Published: October 31, 2023
DOI: 10.54254/2753-7064/10/20231334
Volume: CHR Vol.10
pp. 247-253
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