Analysis On The National Identity Of The News In The Overseas Chinese Media

As the medium of disseminating Chinese national culture as well as the vehicle of delivering information between China and the country which overseas Chinese settled,the news reports’ content and expression of the overseas Chinese media have a subtle influence on its audiences.It also changes the audiences’ cognition and attitude on the Chinese national culture.The ethnic Chinese and the overseas Chinese are the main audiences of overseas Chinese media.The reports of the overseas Chinese media not only offer a platform to transmit and interchange information,but also participate in the process of spreading national culture and constructing national identity.However,the concrete news of overseas Chinese media hadn’t drawn the academic field’s attention.From the angle of news theme and language using,this paper combines the empirical study and content research together.And on the basis of searching and connecting the corpus,the paper generalizes the essential feature and developing trend of the overseas Chinese media on three elements:quantity,distribution and details.This paper uses discourse analysis on the news reports of overseas Chinese media.It discusses the reflection of the national identity by taking a research on the structure and content of the news text.Meanwhile,the paper reveals the anxiety and hesitation of overseas Chinese’ attitude on national identity from which proceeds three dimensions:symbolic identification,individual identification and value identification.It also interprets the way that the overseas Chinese media establish the national identity to its audiences.