Technical Analysis and Development of Single Bamboo Floating from the Perspective of Education and Psychology
Text Mining and Cognitive Psychological Analysis of Sports News in China Daily: The Case of the 2024 Olympics
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Sports news studies have been an increasingly important area. China Daily’s sports news in English version serves as a window, through which people in English countries can perceive China and the athletes’ images. This paper combines the quantitative method with the qualitative method so that the findings can be more persuasive. This study collects the data from China Daily’s news reports ranging from July 26th, 2024 to August 11th, 2024, and builds a corpus to conduct text mining. The high-frequency word cloud is generated to observe and examine the prominent words. Their diachronic distributions are also explored. By the comparison of British National Corpus (BNC), the top 20 keywords are retrieved to address the prominent meanings. This paper also deals with the collocation analysis of “Chinese” and “athletes”. Based on the reading of the concordance lines and contexts, the meanings of China and its athletes’ images are interpreted. It is found that these pieces of news construct China as a high-tech, progressive, friendly, and forward-thinking image and athletes as a victorious, gracious, and sportsmanlike image. These findings are further interpreted by the qualitatively cognitive psychological analysis. This study has implications for interdisciplinary studies on sports psychology.
María Dolores Molina Poveda, Eduardo Galak
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The advent of cinema brought with it its use as a propaganda device with which to transmit ideals and doctrines. As a result, newsreels and cinema documentaries were born with the aim of showing the «most relevant» news of the country and abroad, the former with a shorter duration. In this study, the Spanish NO-DO and «Sucesos Argentinos» are used as primary sources to interpret the images and imaginaries that were projected between 1943 and 1955 on female physical culture. The intention is to understand the official discourse of both political regimes on what Argentinean and Spanish society should be like, especially by questioning those meanings about women. In total, 69 issues of NO-DO and 14 editions of «Sucesos Argentinos» have been found which aim to show female physical culture in this period. The female physical culture shown in both newsreels was aimed at strengthening women’s bodies so that they could carry out their «natural functions» (mother, wife, housewife), as well as highlighting their «inferiority» in relation to men through lower impact activities and the homogenization of bodies through clothing, and the performance of the same exercises in synchrony. And all this in countries with different regimes, but which, in the end, coincided.
Keywords:
female physical culture, NO-DO, Sucesos Argentinos, propaganda, audio-visual images
