Decoding paradoxical identities: The discourse construction of left-behind children in news reports
Linlin Liang,
Hongli Wang,
Wenshu Zhang
Abstract:This paper presents an empirical corpus-based study on the identity of left-behind children in China, employing the discourse-historical approach (DHA) framework. It is the first study to combine Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling and reported speech analysis to examine how China Daily constructs the identity of left-behind children and explore the cultural and rhetorical factors influencing this identity construction. By integrating computational techniques and qualitative analysis methods, this… Show more
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