Jennifer M. Wei
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jennifer M. Wei plays a role.
Articles
2019 Who are we? Contesting meanings in the speeches of national leaders in Taiwan during the authoritarian period Journal of Language and Politics 18:5, pp. 760–781 | Article
This paper analyzes how political aspirations and convictions during Taiwan’s authoritarian period (from the 1940s to 1996) are expressed through first-person plural pronouns. Combining both corpus-assisted method and discourse historical analysis (DHA, Wodak et al. 1999), we compared the… read more
2000 An analysis of the metaphorical usage of campaign slogans in the 1996 presidential campaign in Taiwan Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 10:1, pp. 93–114 | Article
This paper explores a variety of metaphors notably, war, revenge, and a journey of spirituality awakening — used by the 1996 presidential and vice-presidential candidates in Taiwan. It uses the 1996 presidential election rhetoric as a case study to analyze how political ideologies, tactics and… read more