LAMS, Lutgard and Wei-lun LU. Puppets, Compatriots, and Souls in Heaven: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Chiang Kai-shek’s Early Wartime Rhetoric. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs. Hamburg, Germany: GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2018, vol. 47, No 2, p. 87-112. ISSN 1868-1026. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/186810261804700204.
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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.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 60203 Linguistics
Country of publisher Germany
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14640/18:00110058
Organization unit Language Centre
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/186810261804700204
Keywords in English Taiwan; Chiang Kai-shek; authoritarian discourse; discursive strategies; leadership discourse
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: PaedDr. Marta Holasová, Ph.D., učo 38218. Changed: 12/5/2020 21:59.
Abstract
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.
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