A Silhouette of Dangai’ s Cyber-representation
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Discourse Analysis, Dangai, Cyber-representation, Censorship, Boy’s Love, DanmeiAbstract
As a distinctive subculture phenomenon, Dangai drama has been under the spotlight for its portrayal of homoeroticism deviating from hetero-normative ideology and potential implications for films and television industry in China in which neoliberalism is exerting profound influence on multifarious domains. Hinging upon the transitivity structure in SFG and social actors theory, the paper exercises linguistic modus operandi to set in motion the discourse analysis apropos of this entrancing but contentious series genre for the sake of casting light on its sociologically diversified representation in alignment with culturally and politically memetic epitome in heterogeneous cyber-media.
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