Sacrificing long hair and the domestic sphere: Reporting on female medical workers in Chinese online news during Covid-19

IF 2.4 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Discourse & Society Pub Date : 2022-05-19 DOI:10.1177/09579265221096029

Xinmei Sun, Małgorzata Chałupnik

引用次数: 4

Abstract

In the context of the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, female medical staff constituted a large proportion of frontline healthcare workers in China, with 50% of doctors and over 90% of nurses being women. In this paper, we aim to examine how these medical workers were represented at the start of the pandemic in online news reports posted on one of China’s most popular social media platforms, Weibo. In the paper, we draw upon corpus-based critical discourse analysis, comparing representations of female medical workers to those of medical workers in general. We observe that not only are female medical workers portrayed through a predominantly gendered lens, but they are also subordinated to the needs of the state. We consider the role played by state-controlled media in regulating the position of (working) women in society and probe into rhetorical means through which this is achieved.

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牺牲长发和家庭:新冠肺炎期间中国网络新闻中的女医务工作者报道

在新冠肺炎疫情爆发的背景下，女性医护人员在中国一线医护人员中占很大比例，其中50%的医生和90%以上的护士是女性。在这篇论文中，我们旨在研究在疫情开始时，这些医务工作者在中国最受欢迎的社交媒体平台之一微博上发布的在线新闻报道中的表现。在本文中，我们利用基于语料库的批判性话语分析，将女性医务工作者和一般医务工作者的表征进行比较。我们观察到，女性医务工作者不仅是通过以性别为主的视角来描绘的，而且她们也服从于国家的需求。我们考虑了国家控制的媒体在规范（职业）女性在社会中的地位方面所发挥的作用，并探讨了实现这一点的修辞手段。

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Discourse & Society Multiple-

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4.50

自引率

4.50%

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期刊介绍： Discourse & Society is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal whose major aim is to publish outstanding research at the boundaries of discourse analysis and the social sciences. It focuses on explicit theory formation and analysis of the relationships between the structures of text, talk, language use, verbal interaction or communication, on the one hand, and societal, political or cultural micro- and macrostructures and cognitive social representations, on the other hand. That is, D&S studies society through discourse and discourse through an analysis of its socio-political and cultural functions or implications. Its contributions are based on advanced theory formation and methodologies of several disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.