Japanese Sports Fan in British Media Discourse

• Clarke, Jason

抄録

There has been a recent trend of Japanese fans and players cleaning up sports venues after events such as the World Cup. This has attracted a great deal of attention in Western media. This article examines several representative articles in the British media from a discourse analysis perspective. It finds that these articles share a number of commonalities. The behaviour of the Japanese fans is depicted as unusual while similar behaviour by fans from other countries is not mentioned or is minimized. The behaviour of the Japanese fans is linked to Japanese culture, which is then explained to the reader by a Western expert, not by a Japanese person. This ensures that the Japanese in the media reports remain an “Other.” Both the producers and consumers of this media then use this constructed representation of Japanese behavior as a way to either implicitly or explicitly criticize trends in Western society.

収録刊行物

• 言語文化研究

  言語文化研究 (3), 1-13, 2020-03-31

  明海大学複言語・複文化教育センター紀要編集委員会

詳細情報

• CRID: 1050283687645793152
• NII論文ID: 120006824517
• Web Site: https://meikai.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/882
• 本文言語コード: en
• 資料種別: departmental bulletin paper
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