The representation of Cruel Mums : Mothers who kill or injure their children on United Daily and Apply Daily in Taiwan
| Autor: | Yen-chen Yang, 楊妍蓁 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 103 This paper aims to explore how the newspaper United Daily and Apple Daily represent ‘mothers who kill or injure their children’. This research uses content analysis to analyze newspaper and discourse analysis to unveil the deep meaning and myths about mother and motherhood in the reports. It is discovered that, the reports focus on how cruel mothers injure or kill their children and condemn the cruel mothers, but lack of care for whether family, society and country support for mothers’ work as caretakers or not. It reflects motherhood is lonely and without helping. There are five cruel mother images in the news, include ‘bad mother’, ‘mad mother’, ‘sad mother’, ‘silly mother’ and ‘regretful mother’. Every images mirrors different kinds of myths about motherhood in patriarchal society. It also shows that there are different reports means between United Daily and Apple Daily, especially in graph, resources and the length of stories. |
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