The topic on elderly has become a subject of academic studies in many fields since Thailand entered aging society. This study aims at examining representations of Thai elderly people presented through linguistic devices in two media discourses... in Thailand's society, namely newspapers and television programmes. The data are analyzed by using a three-dimensional framework of Fairclough (1995). The findings indicate that discourses from newspaper highlight negative representations of elderly people

The purpose of this thesis is to study the relationship between language and the representation of offender in Thai law and the comparison of offender’s representation in 3 eras of Thai law which consist of; 1) era of the customary law 2...,571 section of legislate recording. To convey the meaning, Thai law has used two language strategies, which are word choice and sentences. According to the “linguistic devices” analysis, there are similarities and differences in representation of offender

through the forms of representation used to describe them. Men are portrayed in different ways depending on their status (as agents or victims) and their relation to the other participant’s sex while women are repeatedly portrayed by using identification

be caused by this discourse include 1) an introduction of “desirable” ways of child raising to readers in Thai society; 2) an attempt to redefine the relationship patterns among family members; 3) the construction of the representation of “desirable...” members of Thai society and 4) the representation of the impact caused by the use of force and violence in Thai society in order to legitimize and call for an adjustment of child raising in Thai society. In conclusion, the findings of this study reveal

This research aims at investigating the representations of political protesters in political protests in Thailand during B.E. 2549 – 2557 in headline news in Thai newspapers from the approach of critical discourse analysis. It also aims to analyze..., and Thai Post. The representations of three different groups of political protesters in three political protests, namely the B.E. 2549-2551 protest, the B.E. 2552-2553 protest, and the B.E. 2556 – 2557 protest, were analyzed. The analytical framework

The Rohingya has been an international controversial issue during this decade. This study aims at examining the relationship between linguistic devices and representations of Rohingyas in Thai online media by using “three-dimensional framework... as miserable human beings the most significant representation that has repeatedly been conveyed is “Rohingya as illegal immigrant and problem of Thai society”. These representations are constructed by adopting 6 linguistic strategies including reference word

in the society tend to have bias attitudes and negative viewpoints against being vocational students. This dissertation aims at examining the representations of vocational students linguistically constructed in mass media discourse and government media discourse... reveals that negative representations of vocational students founded in the two discourses include the representations of vocational students as dangerous people who behave themselves like mafia and gangsters, as the tough social problems

This study aims at analyzing the relationship between language and representations ofex-convicts in supportive media discourse by adopting the framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). This research data were collected from ex-convict...,contrastive sentence structures, condition sentence structures, metaphors, idioms, presupposition, rhetorical question, intertextuality, citing ex-convicts ’s voice and detailing, were adopted to construct positive representations include representing as good

of constituents are identified in the surface representation of quantity phrase. Four of these are main constituent while the rest are modifying constituents. 3. Four phrase structure rules can be proposed to account for the underlying structure of the quantity