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The Study Of The Narrative Characteristics In Workplace Reality TV Show

Posted on:2014-01-31Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H X ZhaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2248330401452578Subject:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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In the social full-scale transitional period, the employment problem becomes agrowing problem. As an observer, TV media guided the public opinion and aimed atemployment difficulties, launching some workplace reality TV shows, for instance,Jobs Come Jobs Go, Career Idol, Win Step by Step, Talent Show Yourself, Only You,Waiting for You to Come. They intended to spread employment concepts actively andestablished the co-opted platforms between applicants and enterprises at the same time.This type of Reality TV show involves following applicants they completed theirprofessional evaluation in the fixed scenes. Based on their performance, employmentopportunities were offered by the interviewers’ decision. This process was recordedtruthfully and broadcasted as TV programs.Whereas the practice process of Workplace Reality TV Show was changed intomarvelous spectacle gradually, and become the best notes which representingcontemporary entertainment culture. The non-profit employment reduced to thecommercialized one. The public trust of TV media is facing an unprecedentedchallenge. With the key point of narrative techniques, the writer attempts to answerhow to bring some enlightenment and experience through the narrative characteristicsin the same kind of show, so as to explore the narrative regular patterns in theWorkplace Reality TV Show.In the second part of this article, an analysis of narrative characteristics fromnarrative subject, narrative perspective and plot was carried out. Therefore, thenarrative rules of Workplace Reality TV Show’s can be concluded. The details wereregarded as an engine, and the recording mode as an approach. We stated thatWorkplace Reality TV Show uses the expression strategies are from the combination ofinner text and external context. Moreover, narrative subject, narrative perspective,narrative plot and narrative discourse have competition and intersection in thediscursive field which stem from the show’s construction. As a result, flowing suspenseand confliction shaped manageable narrative strategies, while at the same timeevolving specific narrative techniques. In the third part of this article, the author analyzed the cause of narrative characteristics from psychological motivation andcommercial intention in the Workplace Reality TV Show that attract programproduction and manufacturers attention, causing the rational beliefs.The results indicated that workplace reality TV Show constructs the narrativecharacteristics while the all-powerful objective lens and flexible swinging lensstimulating it as well. This type of show meets the TV audience in the modernsocieties’ esthetic demands and psychological expectations that meriting our promotionand study. However, this show depends too heavily on the plot narration of artconfliction that only enhancing the entertainment spirit, which will become the showof playing and abandon the positive orientation that TV programs should have. Thenarrative plot needs further improvement, it only then can give full play to its socialfunction and become the guidelines for the contemporary television art, which willpromote the television booming.
Keywords/Search Tags:Workplace Reality TV Show, Narrative Characteristics, Cause Analysis
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