Discourse, politics and media in contemporary China

This chapter discusses theoretical and methodological issues concerning doing critical discourse analysis in China. The authors believe that China's unique social, cultural and political context justifies an assumption that the Western originated paradigm of critical discourse analysis needs ta...

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Otros Autores: Paul Chilton (auth), Cao, Qing, editor (editor), Tian, Hailong, editor, Chilton, Paul A. (Paul Anthony), editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company 2014
[2014]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; volume 54.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China; Editorial page; Editorial page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; 1. Critical discourse analysis and socio-political conditions in China; 2. Discursive regime in China: A brief genealogy; 3. Changing political communication: From control to negotiation; 4. Structure of the book; Notes; References; Disembodied words; 1. Preface; 2. Learning from Yan'an; 3. Jiang Zemin's speeches on intellectuals; 4. The Mission of the Intellectuals; 5. "Revitalize China through science and education"; 6. The style of political language
  • 7. The key elements of Jiang's speeches 8. The discourse on intellectuals under Jiang Zemin; 9. Conclusion; Notes; References; 'Stability overwhelms everything'; 1. Introduction; 2. The legitimation of the CCP; 3. The concept of legitimation; 4. Analyzing stability; 4.1 The 1989 'Beijing Spring'15; 4.2 The 1999 'Anti-Falun Gong' campaign; 4.3 The 2005 'Anti-Japan' demonstrations; Conclusion; Notes; References; A decade of change in China; 1. Introduction; 2. Corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis; 2.1 Critical discourse analysis; 2.2 Corpus linguistics
  • 3. A corpus-based discourse analysis of GWRs3.1 Keywords analysis of GWRs; 3.2 Concordance analysis of the GWRs; 3.3 Concordance analysis of Wen's GWRs; 4. Discourse, engine, and social change; 5. Conclusions; Notes; References; It's a small world after all?; 1. Introduction; 2. The Shanghai World Exposition and the study of discourse; 3. Constructing discourses at the Shanghai Expo; 4. Miniature geopolitics - Shanghai's Expo territory; 5. Constructing the Chinese nation at the PRC's pavilion; 6. Challenging the official Chinese narrative
  • 7. Conclusion: It's a small world after all - but whose World? Notes; References; Discourse of journalism and legitimacy in post-reform China; 1. Introduction; 2. Discourse and legitimacy; 3. The once-unquestioned legitimacy of Chinese journalism questioned in the post-reform era; 4. Discursive formations and re-constructing journalism's legitimacy; 4.1 Liberalisation discourse in the 1980's; 4.2 Populist Discourse in the 1990's; 4.3 Professionalism Discourse in the 21st Century; 4.4 Self-promotion of journalism's legitimacy discourse
  • 5. Further challenges and discursive contests in new media era 6. Conclusion; Notes; References; China's Road to Revival: "Writing" the PRC's struggles for modernization; 1. Introduction; 2. The narrative of China's rebirth: Documenting and performing China's "road to revival"; 3. National humiliation and righteous struggle in Chinese political discourse: documenting the "Opium War"; 4. Performing the Second Sino-Japanese War; 5. Struggling forward with the times: crisis discourse for the 21st century; 6. Conclusion; Notes; References; China's soft power; 1. Introduction
  • 2. Social change, discourse and soft power