Vol. 21:3 (2022) ► pp.435–458
Integrating CDA with ideological rhetorical criticism in the investigation of Abe Cabinet’s discursive construction in “Indo-Pacific Strategy”
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.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Theoretical framework
- 3.Data collection
- 4.Analysis
- 4.1Context model
- 4.1.1Social situation
- 4.1.2Subjective representation
- a.Data processing
- b.Subjective representation analysis
- 4.2Discursive construction analysis centered on “ideographs”
- 4.1Context model
- 5.Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Note
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Reference
https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.20025.tia