Using semantic tagging to examine the American Dream and the Chinese Dream
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4474380 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zhide Hou (0000-0002-1145-7677, English Department , Shenzhen Tourism College of Jinan University , Shenzhen , 518053, Guangdong Province , China, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 2019 |
| Issue | 227 |
| Pages | 145-168 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Semiotica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-1998 • E-ISSN: 1613-3692 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/sem-2016-0116 |
| OpenAlex | W2913576742 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 15 |
This paper uses Wmatrix to generate semantic tagging to compare corpora of media representations between the American Dream and the Chinese Dream. The USAS tagger is used to assign the semantic field tags to the America Dream Corpus (ADC) and the Chinese Dream Corpus (CDC). The motivation of this study is to replicate the studies using an automated and inclusive method based on semantic tagging (Potts, A. & P. Baker. 2012. Does semantic tagging identify cultural change in British and American English? International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 17(3). 295-324), and more importantly, to conduct a broad semantic categorization on both national dreams so as to uncover the cultural, social and historical similarities and/or differences. It is found that the cultural difference of the individualistic home and work association of the American Dream versus the collectivistic nation and world attributions of the Chinese Dream. The different historical stage and social-economic contexts are disclosed from the different temporal positions from time category, and the contrastive tags associated with negative representation of the American Dream and positive representation of the Chinese Dream
Categorization · Collectivism · Dream · Individualism · Linguistics · Political science · Representation (politics) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |