Boundary，Authority and Legitimacy: Research on the...
Bai Hongyi
Bai Hongyi，Research Professor，Institute of Journalism，SASS
E-mail: baihongyi@sass.org.cn
This paper in Chinese was originally published in Journalism & Communication，2018 （8）.This paper is the result of “Research on Journalistic Occupational Discourse in New Media Environment”，which is a general project of National Social Science Foundation of China （Project No.:15BXW013） in 2015.
Abstract: Scholars in Western countries explored the sources of journalistic authority and legitimacy by investigating journalistic professionalism，and formed two different research approaches: One approach is to investigate how journalism constructs social reality，and explore the characteristics of journalistic expertise by presenting the news production process；the other one focuses on discussing how journalism constructs itself，and uses culture，discourse，narrative and other concepts to discuss how journalists and news organizations make use of their unique narrative power to establish cultural authority.This paper attempts to put forward an analysis path of journalistic occupational discourse，which can be taken as a theoretical tool to study the transformation of journalism in China，according to the second path.Based on a systematic review of relevant Chinese and English literature，this paper summarizes the connotation，types and functions of journalistic occupational discourse，and finally puts forward the methods，topics and ideas for carrying out the study of journalistic occupational discourse in the Chinese context.
Keywords: Journalistic Occupational Discourse；Cultural Authority；Border Work；Legitimacy