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Puppets, Compatriots, and Souls in Heaven: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Chiang Kai-shek’s Early Wartime Rhetoric

The study adopts a critical discourse analysis approach to Chiang Kai-shek’s (CKS) internal nationalist propaganda and authoritarian discourse practices, investigating his New Year and National Day speeches in the 1950s. Authoritarian characteristics are evident in strategies such as legitimation, reification, or myth-making, in the antagonist categorisation of Self versus Other, in Self-glorification and the idolisation of the dead, in the hegemonic creation of commonality and unity, and in the metaphorical conceptualisation of reality. Patterns of idolising the dead serve to impose and legitimise CKS’s worldview among his citizens. Another pattern is CKS’s invention of imaginary compatriots within the “enslaved China” waiting for the best time to overthrow the “bandits’” rule. Reference to these imaginary agents indirectly presents to his audience a false but better impression of the Self, and a dimmer view of the communist bandits. A third pattern is CKS’s metaphorical use of language, such as references to communist China as a puppet regime of Russia.

Puppets, Compatriots, and Souls in Heaven: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Chiang Kai-shek’s Early Wartime Rhetoric

Urheber*in: Lams, Lutgard; Lu, Wei-lun

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ISSN
1868-4874
Extent
Seite(n): 87-112
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet

Bibliographic citation
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 47(2)

Subject
Politikwissenschaft
Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Politikwissenschaft
Taiwan
Diskursanalyse
autoritäres System
Rede
Politik
Herrschaft
Propaganda
Fachsprache
Totalitarismus
Legitimation
Rhetorik
Symbol

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Lams, Lutgard
Lu, Wei-lun
Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Deutschland
(when)
2018

URN
urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-4-11741
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  • Lams, Lutgard
  • Lu, Wei-lun

Time of origin

  • 2018

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