Chinese Dating Show Puts Veto Power in Parents’ Hands

The show’s title, directly translated to “if you’re not serious, then don’t bother me,” reflects the direct and to-the-point attitude that has made the program so popular since it first debuted in early He was relatively unknown when the show first aired but has now become a household name. Be careful not to confuse this show with If You Are The One , which is a film directed by Feng Xiaogang that shares the TV show’s title in Chinese , but is not actually related to the show in any way.

Single men appear one by one on stage before a group of 24 women, each standing behind a podium with a light on it. More or less immediately, the man picks one of them in secret that appeals to him.

I’m not above watching MasterChef China, Amazing Race China and yes the dreaded dating shows. I know lost cause. I heard about a dating show hosted by.

The current study wants to explore the particular identity, desirability, from two Chinese TV dating shows. The theoretical frameworks of this study adopt interactional sociolinguistics, specially contextualization cues and conceptual metaphor theory in cognitive linguistics. The data of this study derive from two particular TV dating shows in Taiwan and Mainland China respectively.

The results indicate that the males in Taiwan and Mainland China both construct themselves using positive perspectives, such as kind or knowledgeable. However, one applies words related to the spirit level, while another adapts words related to the physical level. The female or male desirability can be expressed by using metaphor. By analyzing those metaphor examples, we as readers can understand the criteria for being a desirable female and male.

The New Forms of Social Exclusion. Specifically, this study will explore how the notion of desirability that people use in TV dating shows is constructed by using sociolinguistic discourse analysis, especially interactional sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication approaches and the theory of metaphor. These three approaches are adopted to investigate gender.