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integration. By providing information on other Chinese who represent the country in international events, the press could serve to create a sense of commonality among the people. By mobilizing people to follow the four modernizations, the press could work to promote the implementation of government policies, inculcate the wishes of the rulers in the masses, thereby holding the country together. But again, whether the press could produce these effects is beyond the scope of the present study.
As this paper tries to observe the concept of face in the press, it falls short of examining the actual influence of others' reactions to the size of face. "Others' reactions" are indirectly seen, and reactions to the press presentations cannot be studied,
Owing to the scale of the study and the limitations of the analytical framework, the integrative effects, the relation of face with politics could not be proved. The present thesis has only devised a framework in which the concept of face could be observed from the factors and attributes of it, taking for granted that these factors and attributes imply the existence of face.
This framework is also one in which the evidence for the collective level of face, and facework could be gathered, in which the face strategies of the press could be detected. While it could be claimed that it demonstrated satisfactory feasibility in observing the level of face, it is deficient to justify the existence of face through these factors and attributes. This could provoke challenges to the unit of analysis, whether it is appropriate to use the parts to see the whole, to use sentences instead of other units to capture a complicated concept like face.
First, in the search into face strategies used in the press, the unit of analysis is unresolved. Many a time, one strategy enhancing the face of China could, at the same time, be threatening the face of another. One strategy might be detected in a single sentence while another might require a whole paragraph or an entire article to do so. One strategy might be of editorial treatment such as the location of the article, the design of the characters; but another might be of semantic nature, such as the heightening of tone, the use of words etc. which require in-depth reading to pick up.
On the other hand, the basic unit of analysis for the factors and attributes of face is also able to raise validity questions. Because the unit is a complete sentence, it may not be adequate to contain a complete concept of face
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integration. By providing information on other Chinese who represent the country in international events, the press could serve to create a sense of commonality among the people. By mobilizing people to follow the four modernizations, the press could work to promote the implementation of government policies, inculcate the wishes of the rulers in the masses, thereby holding the country together. But agam, whether the press could produce these effects is beyond the scope of the present study.
As this paper tries to observe the concept of face in the press, it falls short of examining the actual influence of others' reactions to the size of face. "Others' reactions" are indirectly seen, and reactions to the press presentations cannot be studied,
Owing to the scale of the study and the limnations of the analytical framework, the integrative effects, the relation of face with politics could not be proved. The present thesis has only devised a framework in which the concept of face could be observed from the factors and attributes of it, taking for granted that these factors and attributes imply the existence of face.
This framework is also one in which the evidence for the collective level of face, and lacework could be gathered, in which the face strategies of the press could be detected. While it could be claimed that it demonstrated satisfactory feasibility in observing the level of face, it is deficient to justify the existence of face through these factors and attributes. This could provoke challenges to the unit of analysis. whether it is appropriate to use the parts to see the whole, to use sentences instead of other units to capture a complicated concept like face.
First, in the search into face strategies used in the press, the unit of analysis is unresolved. Many a time, one strategy enhancing the face of China could, at the same time, be threatening the face of another. One strategy might be detected in a single sentence while another might require a whole paragraph on an entire article to do so. One strategy might be of editorial treatment such as the location of the article, the design of the characters; but another might be of semantic nature, such as the heightening of tone, the use of words etc which require in-depth reading to pick up.
On the other hand, the basic unit of analysis for the factors and attributes of face is also able to validity questions. Because the unit is a complete sentence, it may not be adequate to contain a complete concept of face
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