Bias and Metaphor: On the Archetypical Narration of Populist Public Opinion

TANG Jingtai

Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2015, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (9) : 23-35.

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Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2015, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (9) : 23-35.

Bias and Metaphor: On the Archetypical Narration of Populist Public Opinion

  • Tang Jingtai is an associate professor at School of Journalism and Communication, Jinnan University. Email: tjtcn@163.com.
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Abstract

According to narrative theory, this article discussed the construction mechanism of populist opinion based on text analysis of hot events of public opinion for the past few years. Subject to the populist trend, this research paper argue that there forming three narrative modes in public opinion guided by communication bias of Internet, which are heroic narrative, tragic narrative and revenge narrative thus reconstruct news facts. These three narrative modes share profound tradition in Chinese opera and literature, it has a sense of typical archetype narrative to use traditional framework to re-edits news facts. By which populist public opinion integrates history with reality, wakes up public collective memory and provokes widespread sympathy and resonance. However, these patterned narrative strategies also restrict the complex relationships of transformational China with dual-opposite conception, as well as spreading antagonism and hatred and hindering the formation of social consensus in the metaphor of history and reality.

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populist public opinion / the heroic narrative mode / tragic narrative mode / revenge narrative mode / archetypal narration

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TANG Jingtai. Bias and Metaphor: On the Archetypical Narration of Populist Public Opinion[J]. Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication. 2015, 37(9): 23-35

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This paper is supported by “the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities”.
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