Narrative, Discourse, Identity: discourse construction of a traditional festivals of ethnic minorities
Description
Historical narrations include numerous texts about festival records, which can be compiled into a corpus focused on specific festival narratives. By analyzing this corpus, various discourse expressions can be revealed, allowing for preliminary discourse analysis and a deeper understanding of the discourse construction process. Additionally, the data within this specific corpus can serve as foundational data for analyzing related social issues.
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We set “Sister Festival” as the subject search condition and obtained academic journals (119), annals (51), and newspapers (20) from the China National Knowledge Infrastructure academic platform. We accurately matched monographs (2) and books (133) in Duxiu academic search, obtained Taijiang County Chronicle (2) from the Guizhou Provincial Library, and searched web pages on Baidu, obtaining 760 records. The data were collected by March 12, 2022. Each text was read individually, and we deleted repetitions, similarities, short, incoherent, and irrelevant topics; excluded pictures, videos, and other materials; and retained only text materials. The final material included 14 newspapers (Date1), 87 books (Date2), 2 county chronicles (Date3), 40 annals (Date4), 2 monographs (Date5-1, Date5-2), 110 journals (Date6), and 150 web texts (Date7). From the county chronicles, annals, and books containing other content, only the parts involving sister festivals were extracted, while the rest were full texts. The texts were cleaned and manually screened, resulting in 674,914 words and an 8120 kb raw corpus.