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Judges in Different Fields of Mass Media : A Study on a Singing-Contest Program
No full text[[abstract]]This study analyzed the most popular singing-contest TV program in Taiwan. We explored (1) the cultural information of audiences criticizing the judges of the program, (2) the response of the program production unit; and (3) the competition and interaction between the "TV field" and "Internet field." The study found that the people in the "Internet field" possess moderate amounts of cultural capital and strive for more cultural, social, and symbolic capital. Those in the "TV field" strove for more economic and symbolic capital. This paper presents partial modifications to the illustration by Bourdieu.
English-Mandarin Code Mixing in Taiwan's Media---A Study on the United Daily, 1951-2004
No full text[[abstract]]This paper aims to explore English words and phrases, as well as Mandarin expressions borrowed from English pronunciations, that are mixed in Mandarin newspapers, using the headlines of the United Daily from 1951 to 2004 as examples. The paper begins with a review of the literature concerning Sociolinguistics and its focus on media, and the definition of code-mixing as well as social and cultural implications. The review raises several issues for further research in this area. Responding to the issues, the analysis of headlines collected and the calculations of recurrences show that: (1) there has been a dramatic increase of code mixings in the corpus since the 1990's, with a multiple amount in the 21st century compared to much fewer in the 1990's; (2) noun phrases are the major syntactic category where code-mixing takes place, followed by adjective phrases and verb phrases; (3) adjective phrases, and expressions combined with both English and Mandarin have been noticeably amplifying since the 1990's. It is argued that attracting readers' attention by resonating social and cultural changes (in particular, increasing focus on fashion, computer technology, and western lifestyles) seems to be one of the major reasons that lead to the occurrences of code mixing in newspapers. Finally, issues for further research are put forward, this paper concludes that the growing use of English mixings into Mandarin in newspapers may be expected in the future.
