Detailed Information on Publication Record
2018
Puppets, Compatriots, and Souls in Heaven: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Chiang Kai-shek’s Early Wartime Rhetoric
LAMS, Lutgard and Wei-lun LUBasic information
Original name
Puppets, Compatriots, and Souls in Heaven: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Chiang Kai-shek’s Early Wartime Rhetoric
Authors
LAMS, Lutgard (56 Belgium) and Wei-lun LU (158 Taiwan, guarantor, belonging to the institution)
Edition
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, Hamburg, Germany, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2018, 1868-1026
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Článek v odborném periodiku
Field of Study
60203 Linguistics
Country of publisher
Germany
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
References:
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14640/18:00110058
Organization unit
Language Centre
Keywords in English
Taiwan; Chiang Kai-shek; authoritarian discourse; discursive strategies; leadership discourse
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 12/5/2020 21:59, PaedDr. Marta Holasová, Ph.D.
Abstract
V originále
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.