@article{AlpermannMalzer2023,
  author    = {Alpermann, Bj{\"o}rn and Malzer, Michael},
  title     = {"In Other News": China's International Media Strategy on Xinjiang — CGTN and New China TV on YouTube},
  series = {Modern China},
  journal   = {Modern China},
  edition   = {Online first},
  issn      = {1552-6836},
  doi       = {10.1177/00977004231169008},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-314173},
  pages     = {1-44},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {In the Western world China stands accused of severe human rights violations regarding its treatment of the Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim minorities in its northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. This is the first article to systematically analyze the response of China's international state media to these allegations. By studying the YouTube channels of two leading Chinese state media, China Global Television Network (CGTN) and New China TV (operated by Xinhua News Agency), it presents an indepth understanding of how China's foreign-facing propaganda works in a crucial case. The quantitative content analysis highlights how China reacted to increasing international (mostly United States) pressure regarding its Xinjiang policies by producing higher volumes of videos and putting out new counternarratives. The qualitative analysis that follows provides in-depth treatment of the most important discourses that Chinese media engage in to salvage the nation's international image, namely those on development, culture, nature, and terrorism. It finds several ways of countering criticism, ranging from presenting a positive image of China, in line with traditional propaganda guidelines and President Xi Jinping's assignment to state media to "tell the China story well," to more innovative approaches. Thus the development narrative becomes more personalized, the discourse on culture supports the "heritagization process" to incorporate minority cultures into a harmonized "Chinese civilization," representations of nature firmly tie Xinjiang into the discourse of "beautiful China," the "terror narrative" strategically employs shocking footage in an attempt to gain international "discourse power," etc. The article provides an up-to-date picture of China's state media strategy on a highly contentious international issue.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{FetzerWeizmanReber2012,
  author    = {Fetzer, Anita and Weizman, Elda and Reber, Elisabeth},
  title     = {Follow-ups across discourse domains: A cross-cultural exploration of their forms and functions},
  organization    = {Lehrstuhl englische Sprachwissenschaft},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-71656},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {The edited volume documents the proceedings of the ESF workshop "Follow-ups across discourse domains: a cross-cultural exploration of their forms and functions". It examines the forms and functions of the dialogue act of a follow-up, viz. accepting or challenging a prior communicative act, in political discourse across spoken and written dialogic genres. Specifically, it considers (1) the discourse domains of political interviews, editorials, op-eds and discussion forums, (2) their sequential organization as regards the status of initial (or 1st order) follow-up, a follow-up of a prior follow-up (2nd order follow-up), or nth-order follow-up, and (3) their discursive realization as regards degrees of indirectness and responsiveness which are conceptualized as a continuum along the lines of degrees of explicitness and degrees of responsiveness. The chapters come from the fields of linguistics, discourse analysis, socio-pragmatics, communication, political science and psychology, examining the heterogeneous field of political discourse and its manifestation in diverse discourse genres with respect to evasiveness, indirectness and redundancy in mediated political discourse, professional discourse, discourse identity and doing politics, to name but the most prominent questions.},
  subject      = {Pragmatik},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Sava2006,
  author    = {Sava, Ramona-Mihaela},
  title     = {Quest and Conquest in the Fiction of David Lodge},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-23317},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {In spite of David Lodge's rejection of the theories labelled as poststructuralist, this thesis proves that his novels can be interpreted from a Foucauldian perspective. The concept of discourse, seen by the French philosopher as intricately linked with knowledge, power and truth, enables the distinction of four main discourses in Lodge's novels, religious, gender, ethnic and literary. The analysis reveals that in David Lodge's fiction there is a perpetual struggle for power illustrating Foucault's idea of the interdependence between power, knowledge, truth and discourses circulated by institutions.},
  subject      = {Lodge},
  language  = {en}
}