The Representation of Cross-Strait Issue in the English News

兩岸議題的新聞再現

蔡光庭(Kuang-Ting Tsai)

《明道通識論叢》 9期 (2010/12) Pp. 33-51

https://doi.org/10.6954/MJGE.201012.0033

摘要

2005年時，台灣是漢洲的第七大出口市場，也是漢洲的第十大貿易伙伴，而這樣的經貿關係仍在持續成長中。類似地，新加坡是台灣在東南亞最大的出口市場，佔有台灣在該區百分之三十五的出口總額，與台灣在經貿上的關靜、不可不謂密切。然而，在學術研究的領域中，卻絕少出現過溪洲或新加坡媒體如何報導台灣或兩岸議題的相關研究。因此，本研究目的在於探究漢洲與新加坡報紙如何建構及框架台灣與兩岸相關議題。在研究取徑上，本研究除了採用傳統上量化的內容分析之外，還多了質化的新聞框架分析，其目的在於透過質化的取徑，探究新聞報導中更深入的、較穩而未現的潛在意涵。而如此隱含在新聞框架中的意涵，其重要性、影響性卻往往超過量化的內容分析所能主現出的深度。本研究以2005年中國通過對台反分裂法的新聞為分析樣本，選取澳洲的雪梨晨鋒報、澳洲人報，以及新加坡的海峽時報為分析的媒體。研究結果發現，在量化方面，新加坡的海峽時報出現的新聞則數最多，其次是漢洲人報，而最少的是雪梨晨鋒報。在報導型態方面，這三大報絕大部分的報導都以純新聞的型態呈現。在消息來源方面，這三大報的主要消息來源為自家的報社記者。在新聞主角方面，則分別為中國政府(雪梨晨鋒報)、中國政治人物(澳洲人報)、以及台灣政治人物(海峽時報)。在質化結果方面，則出現了以下四種框架，分別是：法案框架、國家地位框架、政治體系框架以及軍事框架。值得注意的是，溪洲與新加坡的新聞體制及其政府的對台關係，也影響了其國內報紙在報導台灣與兩岸相關議題時的立場與角度，也因此而至現出了不同的新聞框架。

關鍵字

澳洲 ； 新加坡 ； 英文報紙 ； 框架分析

並列摘要

Taiwan is an island country almost half the size of Tasmania with a population of about 23 million. Taiwan was Australia's 7th largest merchandise export market and 10th largest trading partner in 2005 (Bureau of Foreign Trade, 2006) and the markets continue to grow. However, there is still insufficient mutual understanding between Taiwan and Australia. Clearly, one aspect of the relationship between the two countries that has not been systematically studied is that of media images of each other. There is little research that investigates what Australians know of Taiwan through their print media. My motives in beginning this study began with this observation and the observation that there is not much news coverage of Taiwan in the Australian press. A similar situation can be observed in Singaporean media. Singapore established the earliest official relations with Taiwan among all the Southeast Asian countries (or ASEAN) since 1973 when Taiwan helped Singapore to set up its Air Force. Singapore is Taiwan's largest export source in Southeast Asia and takes 35 percent of Taiwan's total exports to the region (Chen, 2002 , p.136). But studies of the reporting and portrayal of Taiwan in the Singaporean press are rarely conducted. For these reasons, this study chooses the news event of China's ＂Anti-secession Law＂ to Taiwan in 2005 as a case study, and it is designed to examine the following questions: Q1.What were the news quantity, page placement and news length, news genre and source, major actor，and main topic in the reporting of China's ＂Anti-secession Law＂ to Taiwan in the main newspapers of Australia and Singapore? Q2.What were the thematic news frames employed in the reporting of China's ＂Anti-secession Law＂ to Taiwan in the main newspapers of Australia and Singapore? How were the cross-Strait issues between Taiwan and China portrayed in the main newspapers of Australia and Singapore?

並列關鍵字

Australia ； Singapore ； newspaper ； farming analysis