東南亞的自然災難與他者化過程：2011年泰國水患的媒體再現之初探研究

Natural Disaster in Southeast Asia and the Process of Othering: A Preliminary Study of Media Representation of Thailand Flooding in 2011

本文研究焦點在於分析，災難新聞論述如何做為一種可能的論述權力，反映一個國家對內鞏固集體認同和建構本國與他國地位優劣的權力過程。透過論述分析台灣新聞對2011泰國大水災的報導歷程，研究發現，泰國被建構成為一個他者，是以動態的方式被標籤、建構負面的刻板印象，並且使其在新聞論述中被置於不同程度的劣勢位置。

This article is aimed at investigating how discourses of disaster news become a discursive power. By analyzing the news discourses of the 2011 Thailand floods, the research results show that Taiwan news coverage of the disaster was created to dynamically constitute the relationship between Taiwan and Thailand. The results indicate that the Taiwan news about the suffering in Thailand involved a discursive process of “othering” of Thailand. This othering process not only constructed negative stereotypes of Thailand but located it in an inferior position.