A Study of Identity Construction of the Elderly in Weibo News on Public Health Emergency
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18002/sin.v10i1.6314Keywords:
identity construction, public health emergency, Weibo newsAbstract
This paper, taking the perspective of pragmatic identity theory, investigates identity
construction of the elderly in Weibo news on public health emergency. 157 news reports are collected
from three Weibos People’s Daily, WuhanChina as well as Voice of Elderly to explore identity types
constructed and strategies adopted in constructing the elderly on Weibo. Results show the tendency of
positive and diversified construction of the elderly in China’s Weibo news on public health emergency.
Strategies in constructing the elderly involve identity modifications, identity foregrounding,
backgrounding, contrasting and identity shift and crossing.
Métricas alternativas
Downloads
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
How to Cite
License
Copyright (c) 2020 Jing Xiaoping, Du Hui
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Sinología Hispánica. China Studies Review considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that:
- The authors assign the exploitation rights (reproduction, distribution, public communication and transformation) of the work accepted for publication to the University of León on a non-exclusive basis. Authors can establish, on their own, additional agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in the journal (for example, placing it in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book), always acknowledging the initial publication. in this magazine.
- The manuscript is your own original work and does not duplicate any other previously published work, including your own previously published work.
- The manuscript is not currently under consideration or peer review, nor accepted for publication, nor in press, nor published elsewhere.
- The manuscript contains nothing that is abusive, defamatory, libellous, obscene, fraudulent, or illegal.
- Please note that Sinologia Hispanica uses Turnitin software to screen manuscripts for unoriginal material. By submitting your manuscript to Sinologia Hispanica you are agreeing to any necessary originality checks your manuscript may have to undergo during the peer-review and production processes. Any author who fails to adhere to the above conditions will be rejected.
- Authors are allowed and encouraged to electronically disseminate the pre-printed versions (version before being evaluated) and / or post-printing (version evaluated and accepted for publication) of their works before publication, since it favors their circulation and dissemination more early and with it, a possible increase in its citation and reach among the academic community.
Sinologia Hispanica is under an international license Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0. You can read more about this license in an informative version and legal text.
