Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Contemporary communication
1.2 Sports and national identity
1.3 Beijing Olympic Games and Chinese national identity
1.4 The structure of the thesis
Chapter 2 Nation, Nationalism and National Identity
2.1 Identity studies: from essentialism to constmctionism
2.2 Related concepts to national identity
2.2.1 Different approaches to nation
2.2.1.1 Nation as a historical development
2.2.1.2 Nation as an imagined community
2.2.1.3 Nation as a cognitive category
2.2.2 State and nation - state
2, 2.3 Nationalism
2.2.4 Definition of national identity
2.3 Assumptions about national identity
2.3.1 National identity as social identity
2.3.2 National identity as collective identity
2.3.3 National identity: An interactive construct
2.3.4 Multi - dimensional representation of
nationalidentity
2.3.5 Multiple empirical referents to national
identity
2.4 The discursive construction of national identity
2.5 Current researches on Chinese national identity
2.6 Towards multimodal discursive construction of
nationalidentity
Chapter 3 Multirnodality Research: A New Frontier for Multi
-semioMeaning Making
3.1 Studies of semiotic meaning - making mechanism
3.1.1 Founding fathers of semiotics revisited
3.1.1. I Saussure' s linguicentric semiology
3.1.1.2 Peirce' s semiotics: logic - oriented theoryabout
signs
3.1.2 Social semiotics
3.1.2.1 Social interpretation of meaning
3.1.2.2 Multiplicity of meaning - making resources
3.1.2.3 Social theory of signs
3.1.2.4 Semiosis and the social
3.1.3 Summary
3.2 Critical discourse analysis: discourse as social
practice
3.2.1 Fairclough: The distinction between Discourse (s)and
discourse (s)
3.2.2 Wodak: discourse as a macro -topic concept anda
particular occurrence
3.2.3 Van Dijk: a multidisciplinary notion of
discourse
3.2.4 Kress and Van Leeuwen: discourse as the semiosicplane
in semiosis
3.2.5 Summary
3.3 Critical social semiotics
3.3.1 Multimodal theory of communication
3.3.2 Modes and media
3.3.3 Multimodal text
3.3.4 Multiple articulation of meaning
3.3.5 Reflections on Kress and Van Leeuwen' smultimodal
theory
Chapter 4 Proposed Frameworks for Multimodal Discourse
Analysis
4.1 Multimodal realization of discourse
4.1.1 Mode identification
4.1.2 Mode involvement
4.1.3 Mode interaction
4.1.4 Strategy and multimodal discourse as
socialpractice
4.2 A three - stage meaning - making model
4.2.1 Cultivation
4.2.2 Realization
4.2.3 Distribution
4.2.4 Relationship between the three stages
Chapter 5 Multimodal Discursive Construction of ChineseNational
Identity
5.1 A plethora of multi - semiotic resources as data
5.2 Multimodal realization of Chinese national
identity
5.2.1 Modes, sub - modes and media deployed
5.2.1.1 Language
5.2.1.2 Sub - modes of language
5.2.1.3 Image
5.2. 1.4 Music
5.2.1.5 Dress
5.2.1.6 Color
5.2.1.7 Number
5.2.1.8 Media
5.2.2 Mode involvement
5.2.3 Intersemiosis
5.2.3.1 The bidding logo and its caption
5.2.3.2 Intersemiosis in people' s signatures
5.2.3.3 A middle school student' s paper cranes and verbal
hope
5.2.3.4 Overseas Chinese' s Wish Cup and open letter
5.2.3.5 Overseas Chinese displaying "Olympic Dragon"
Scroll
5.2.3.6 Interaction between semiotic modes in
presentation
5.2.3.7 Fuwa: A kaleidoscope of the Chineseculture
5.2.4 Strategy
5.2.5 Summary
5.3 The Beijing Olympic emblem: An illustration of three -
stage multimodal meaning making
5.3.1 Cultivation: digging Chinese culture
5.3.1.1 Design expectation: China aiming to be unique
5.3.1.2 Combining Chinese civilization with Olympic philosophy in
the design
5.3.1.3 The design - modifying: A Chinese culture learning
process
5.3.2 Realization: A witness of the Chinese nation' s
commitment
5.3.2.1 The visual image of the emblem: a multimodal
construct
5.3.2.2 Multimodal realization of the emblem seal
5.3.2.3 Unveiling: an aggregate of signs
5.3.3 Distribution: meaning enhanced and enriched
5.3.3.1 Rogge giving approval in a Chinese way
5.3.3.2 International Comments
5.3.3.3 Chinese official interpretation
5.3.3.4 Chinese experts' evaluations
5.3.3.5 Other Chinese people' s understanding
5.3.3.6 Summary
5.3.4 Chinese Seal -Dancing Beijing and Chinese
nationalidentity
5.4 Discussion
5.4.1 Chinese national identity as a multimodal discursive
construct
5.4.2 Multi - dimensional representation of Chinese national
identity
5.4.3 Multiple empirical referents to Chinese national
identity
Chapter 6 Conclusion
Bibliography
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