Analysis Of Female Discourse In Internet Romance Novels

The emergence of women’s online literature sites provides women with a more private platform for writing,reading and communication.The authors,editors,and readers of this platform are basically composed of women,and the large number of works on the platform also contains rich texts.Female discourse.As an important part of women’s online literary works,online romance novels have created many vivid and clear images of women,and they are an important sample of women’s discourse research.This paper mainly studies four major issues.One is the performance of female discourse in online romance novels.The author uses the content analysis method to analyze the word frequency of 200 texts,and concludes that the themes of online romance novels include three aspects:"love","workplace" and "marriage".Through reading these 200 novels and analyzing some texts,the author summarizes the construction method of their female discourse from three aspects:one is to describe the growth of women in the narrative mode of "doing monsters and upgrading";Men are placed in the position of "being seen",forming a female gaze,and achieving male sexual consumption;the third is to create a diverse image of women in the workplace,express women’s self-identity,and show more possibilities for women.The second is to use the field theory to analyze how the female discourse in the works is produced.In the field of online literature,in order to accumulate capital and strive for more power,the author’s habit of production is to consider the opinions of readers and editors,and to produce female discourse that conforms to readers’ preferences and market preferences;while readers are influenced by the female discourse in the text.The influence of the editor puts forward higher requirements for the quality of the text and the author himself;the editor plays a role in prompting the market orientation in the process of text production,and influences the exposure of the work and the choice of readers through the existing power.The collective practice of writers,readers,and editors forms the current female discourse.Third,analyze how women’s discourse spreads.In the process of female discourse dissemination,the phenomenon of secondary dissemination is obvious,the dissemination content of different subjects has its own characteristics,and the dissemination channels and forms are also richer and more diverse.In the process of dissemination,women’s discourse is further enriched.The fourth is to study the acceptance and significance of female discourse.Here,the author introduces acceptance theory to understand readers’ acceptance purpose,behavior and reading influence through interviews.In terms of reading purposes,readers’ reading purposes can be summarized into three categories:reducing stress,substituting satisfaction,and acquiring novel knowledge.In terms of reading behavior,online romance novel readers have a high reading frequency and a high reading intensity.They read and understand the text more quickly,but maintain their own awareness in terms of viewpoints.From the perspective of reading influence,female discourse in online romance novels awakens women’s consciousness,deepens group understanding,and prompts women to think about the social reality of both genders;at the level of action,online romance novels promote the construction of female interest groups,stimulate women’s resistance,creative behavior,and influence lifestyle.Finally,it points out two major limitations of the current women’s expression of female consciousness in online literature works——the "template" and "routine" caused by the utilitarian writing style of the market.