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

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/1174/1181" target="_blank" >https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/1174/1181</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/186810261804700204" target="_blank" >10.1177/186810261804700204</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

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

Original language description

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.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs

ISSN

1868-1026

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

47

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

26

Pages from-to

87-112

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85074042925