Integrating CDA with ideological rhetorical criticism in the investigation of Abe Cabinet’s discursive construction in “Indo-Pacific Strategy”
Weiqi Tian | Dalian Minzu University | Dalian University of Technology
Hongmei Chai | Dalian University of Foreign Languages
Lin Lu | Dalian University of Foreign Languages | Eastern Liaoning University
In recent years, the Indo-Pacific strategy and the Quad concept have been introduced and advocated by various countries.
Since the second term of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the “Indo-Pacific Strategy” has been widely promoted. Assisted by corpus
linguistics, this paper aims to explore the implicit ideology by providing insight into the context model from CDA perspective, and to
decode the discursive construction by combining “ideographs” and “policy triggers” as Ideological Rhetorical Criticism instructed. The study
shows these political texts are rich in forms of rhetorical strategies of “routinization”, “hegemony”, “uniformization” and “naturalization”
used to construct a discursive system to distinguish “them” from “us”, so that to realize political aims.
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