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When the media try to elevate the status of the Party, it may also attempt to do the same to the Government. Therefore, it may be dangerous to treat Party and Government in the PRC as mutually exclusive categories. Moreover, the Communists (or even the Nationalists) frequently use the term "Party Nation” (Dangguo), it suggests that "Party” and “Nation” could often be mixed. The success of the Nation, the prestige of the Party could be the success of the Party and the prestige of the Nation, so on and so forth. As such, elements portrayed as enhancing to the Nation may suggest the same to the Party and the Government. This is an important implication in the interpretation stage of the study.
Operational Plan
Research Questions
If a collectivity's status, role performance, moral conduct and others' reactions, as well as her honour, influence and deference work in the way similar to those at the individual level, then a nation's face exists. By the same token, anything that constitutes a threat or an opportunity of enhancement to one or more of the four variable factors of a collectivity's face would be regarded as a predicament of face for that unit. And, anything that would derogate or boost the attributes of a collectivity's face would also be considered as a threatening or enhancing element to that unit's face.
If face strategies are employed to depict these variable factors and attributes of a collectivity, then the face of that collectivity is proved. At the same time, if these strategies are favourable to the collectivity concerned, then it can be said that facework is being carried out. Having these assumptions, thus paper attempts to fulfill and answer the following objectives and questions:
1) Detecting the existence of the concept of a nation's face in the press;
2) If there is such an existence, how the press depicts this face:
3) Detecting the existence of the factors and attributes of a nation's face in the press;
4) If any, how the press depicts them;
5) Does the press do any facework by way of some face strategies?
6) If so, how facework is being done, and what are the strategies?
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When the media try to elevate the status of the Party, it may also attempt to do the same to the Government. Therefore, it may be dangerous to treat Party and Government in the PRC as mutually exclusive categories. Moreover, the Communists (or even the Nationalists) frequently use the term "Party Nation” (Dangguo), it suggests that "Party” and “Nation” could often be mixed. The success of the Nation, the prestige of the Party could be the success of the Party and the prestige of the Nation, so on and so forth. As such, elements portrayed as enhancing to the Nation may suggest the same to the Party and the Government. This is an important implication in the interpretation stage of the study.
Operational Plan
Research Questions
If a collectivity's status, role performance, moral conduct and others' reactions, as well as her honour, influence and deference work in the way similar to those at the individual level, then a nation's face exists. By the same token, anything that constitutes a threat or an opportunity of enhancement to one or more of the four variable factors of a collectivity's face would be regarded as a predicament of face for that unit. And, anything that would derogate or boost the attributes of a collectivity's face would also be considered as a threatening or enhancing element to that unit's face.
If face strategies are employed to depict these variable factors and attributes of a collectivity, then the face of that collectivity is proved. At the same time, if these strategies are favourable to the collectivity concerned, then it can be said that facework is being carried out. Having these assumptions, thus paper attempts to fulfill and answer the following objectives and questions:
I) Detecting the existence of the concept of a nation's face in the
press;
2) If there is such an existence, how the press depicts this face: 3) Detecting the existence of the factors and attributes of a nation's
face in the press;
4) If any, how the press depicts them;
5) Does the press do any facework by way of some face strategies? 6) If so, how facework is being done, and what are the strategies?
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