A Cognitive Rhetoric Approach to National Identity: The Case of Taiwan (the ROC)

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angličtina
Original language name
A Cognitive Rhetoric Approach to National Identity: The Case of Taiwan (the ROC)
Original language description
The present paper adopts a Cognitive Linguistic approach to the national identity of Taiwan, addressing how metaphor serves as a rhetorical means by which the Nationalist presidents impose a Chinese mindset on their citizens. I in particular discuss some selected examples from Taiwan Presidential Corpus, a representative collection of Taiwanese presidential speeches. In the excerpts that I discuss, the presidents compare the country to a building constructed in the past, a building that needs reconstruction, and a plant while focalizing it root, which are all rhetorical strategies used by the Nationalist presidents in spreading their China-oriented political agenda. I conclude by claiming that Cognitive Linguistics, especially its most important research thread, the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor, can serve as a useful analytical framework in the investigation of national identity.
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Project
<a href="/en/project/EE2.3.30.0037" target="_blank" >EE2.3.30.0037: Employment of Best Young Scientists for International Cooperation Empowerment</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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