This study looks at the popular Taiwan newspapers and their coverage of the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand. The focus of this study is to analyze the construct and combination of the text. This analysis will be done by utilizing the following four questions:
1. What is the structure of the narrative found in the text?
2. What type of metaphor utilized in the text ?
3. How is fact analysis used to bias the tone of the text?
4. How are time elements used within the text?
The results of of these four questions were concluded as follows:
1. Narrative Analysis -- Through this analysis two issues arose. The first concerns how the text narrative represents the R.O.C. representatives pursuit of the gold medal. The second concerns how the narrative text represents the setting''s atmosphere. The first one can be divided into 14 steps all of the steps being connected to each other and works as a series. The second part can be divided into 7 steps that focus on building the atmosphere such as nervousness, business, worry, opposition, and ceremony.
2. Metaphor Analysis -- Through the metaphor analysis the context of the report can be categorized into 18 different areas. Each area is divided into a main metaphor and a sub-metaphore. Each of these 18 metaphors represent four kinds of situations: a) sometimes opposing metaphors are found in a single text and will interact with each other; b) a metaphor for war is found in every article; c) metaphors that reflect society''s economic situation. These metaphors fit into two categories. The first are those that relate to the stock market and the second are those that benefits gained through winning, d) metaphors that work to put new life into the sport.
3. Factual and Unfactual Language Analysis -- This analysis shows that it is common for factual and unfactual language to exist in the same text. Sporting reports attempt to use language that is most commonly found in literature. These reports use the six questions; who, what, when, where, why, how. It is common for reports containing factual and unfactual language to use Chinese with occasional Taiwanese added.
4. Time Element Analysis -- Through the time element analysis it is found that report texts contain an abundance time words. These time words construct the games time and space. They include the time of events, natural setting, movement, history, the clock, and records. Scientific time elements and the time of the environment in which humans exist are found in the reports text. Time elements in a report text are affected by the bias of the author. The author Has freedom to choose what elements are included and what are left out. The author can also bias the report through the reorganization of time elements to fit their purposes. This relates to the time elements of the narrative. The content of the report will always show the past, present, and future. In this way the reader can experience the depth of the history of the sport. The graph in the diagram shows this interaction of space and time. The story of the gold medal winner shows how the time is extended in this situation.