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Confluence And Conspiracy:TV Documentary In Three Kinds Of Discoursive Context

Posted on:2015-03-22Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X M MengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2255330428964589Subject:Journalism
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Discourse have great influence on people’s thoughts, thus it can affect people’s behavior. Television documentary is a kind of human social practice, so it bounds to be influenced by the context of utterance. While as a carrier of the discourse, television documentaries can also effects on the society. So what kind of discourse is there in television documentary? How they affect the production of TV documentary? These questions will be studied and discussed in this paper.The article presents the present situation of the television documentary discourse confluence, analysis the background of the present situation, summing up the mechanism of discourse power behind the conspiracy. That is to say, this article writes is a phenomenon-cause-path way.The article is divided into four chapters; the content of first chapter is the theoretical basis of this article. It expounds the relationship between Chinese television documentary and discourse, and the influence of documentary three discourse context is described. The second chapter divided Chinese television documentary language evolution into five periods, and rheological carding the three discourse context of the television documentary. Regard the different periods of the same or similar theme documentary film as a text and do some analysis. Through these, the article induces the change of the social construction function of television documentary. The third chapter describes the production process of TV documentary "Six Chapters of the Huaihe River". On the basis of this description, the impact of the official discourse, public discourse and elite discourse to documentary production will be summarized. The fourth chapter is on the conspiracy of the power of the discourse formation, and the formation of the conspiracy was discussed. It tries to induce the mechanism of collusion between the government, the audience and cultural elite.It can be found by carding the documentary history that, with the development of a single context to the pluralistic context, the discourse in television documentary develop itself from a single discourse into pluralistic ones, And the three kinds of discourse finally come into confluence.The social role of television documentary has been changed. It changed from "political speech" to "social image" and television documentary finally become to a kind of "social consciousness". The social construction functions of documentary also riched. Its initial construction function is forming political ideology, and now there are such muti-dimensional functions as cultural inheritance, shaping national spirit, keeping history information, intercultural communication, construction of common values and so on.And for the production of television documentary, the influence of three kinds of discourse throughout the entire production process.Through the analysis of the confluence of three kinds of discourse in the documentary "Six Chapters Of The Huaihe River", we can see the influence of three kinds of discourse to a documentary.The confluence of three kinds of discourse, in fact, reflect the conspiracy of three masters of the discourses: the government, the elite and the public.By analyzing, the article sums up the collusion mechanism of discourse power, which are the government force and guide mechanism, the audience spontaneous attention the mechanism, cultural elite documentary consciously mechanism.Government, audience and cultural elite have different needs for documentary, which requires documentary have different social construction function. The realizing method of these different social construction function, however, is the same. So these three discourse power, for different purposes, forming resultant force, promote the development of documentary.The ideology directly expressive TV documentary, as well as the public perspective TV documentary with elite narrative for official mainstream values, they all have a strong state will. The public discourse brings market mechanism, make China’s TV documentaries glows the new vitality and vigor. While elite discourse guarantees the humanistic connotation of TV documentary.The confluence of three kinds of words in a television documentary makes the content of documentary in harmony.
Keywords/Search Tags:TV Documentary, Discourse, Discourse Power, "The Six ChaptersOf The Huaihe River"
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