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“Lifeworld” representation of political measures in president Xi Jinping’s discourse

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Published/Copyright: October 16, 2018

Abstract

This paper analyzes China’s president Xi Jinping’s discourse of political measures including the construction of the Party’s “work style”, anticorruption drive, and China’s economic development. The analysis is based on an integrated framework combining discursive representations (Fairclough 1995, 2003) and Martin and White’s (2005) framework for the language of evaluation. Through the analysis, this study is hoped to offer a discourse perspective regarding the CCP’s “discursive governance”, that is, how the lifeworld discursive resources including metaphors, representations of daily scenarios, and colloquialisms in the CCP’s discourse work to strengthen the argumentations for its governance.


Central China Normal University 152 Luoyu Road Wuhan Hubei China 430079

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This paper is an outcome of the project titled “The Language Style of President Xi Jinping and China’s Discursive Governance in the New Era” (习近平总书记的语言风格和新时代”话语治理”研究) funded by the National Social Science Foundation of China (Grant No.: 18CYY050).

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Published Online: 2018-10-16
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