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The Youth’s View of Marriage in Chinese Mainstream Media Discourse—A Corpus-assisted Three-dimensional Discourse Analysis



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DING Shu-li

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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2024.04.004

School of Foreign Languages, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China

The rising of aging and the declining of birth rates have forced the public to focus on the youth’s view on marriage. Based on critical discourse analysis and combined with Fairclough’s three-dimensional discourse analysis model, this paper builds a “Chinese media News Report Corpus on the topic of ‘marriage’” whose news are collected from China Daily. It is found that the discourses are neutral and objective with regard to the advantages and disadvantages of marriage, but in general, it is still a traditional view of marriage that is inevitable and closely related to fertility. Although this is controlled by the policies and the social reasons including declining fertility rate, it deviates from the current view of the youth towards marriage, resulting in many serious consequences such as young people’s rejection. In addition, this research found that male and female have great differences in their views on marriage, and men’s resistance to marriage is far greater than that of women, which is departure from the public’s cognition. The reasons behind this need to be explored in order to solve the marriage and love problems of young people in today’s era and realize the healthy development of young marriage.

corpora, Three-dimensional discourse analysis, the youth’ view of marriage

Journal of Literature and Art Studies, April 2024, Vol. 14, No. 4, 284-289