Gong, Jiankun and Firdaus, Amira and Aksar, Iffat Ali and Alivi, Mumtaz Aini and Xu, Jinghong (2023) Intertextuality and ideology: Social actor's representation in handling of COVID-19 from China daily. Journalism, 24 (12, SI). pp. 2741-2761. ISSN 1464-8849, DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849231157243.
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As one of the major venues for articulating and disseminating national agendas and opinion discourse, national newspapers play a critical role in promulgating ideology. Underpinned by Intertextuality and Social Actor Theory, this study explores intertextual aspects of China Daily's reporting of COVID-19 to unearth hidden ideology behind texts. The analysis reveals diversified voices from multiple actors around the globe, with China's official leaders appearing most frequently. In the portrayal of social actors, some strategies like impersonalisation, and genericisation are utilised to add impersonal authority or power to an actor's activity, actant's engagement, and increase the trustworthiness of news. These reprsentational strategies belies a transformation in Chinese media discourse with a softer approach is used in wielding ideological intentions through journalistic practices of intertextuality. Our findings help to unravel how news texts draw on, echo, and bring together multiple intertextual resources realised in the forms of discourses. The circulations, dissemination and incorporation of these intertextual relations and practices construct specific understandings of ideology consolidation and public relations within the context of China and its response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Intertextuality; social actor; China daily; COVID-19; news representation; media discourse |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics > Communication. Mass media |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > Department of Media and Communication Studies |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Oct 2025 09:06 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2025 09:06 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/49903 |
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