Ma Ying-jeou's Presidential Discourse

Sullivan, Jonathan; Sapir, E.

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“…Previous studies focused mainly on Iranian presidents' speeches delivered at official functions (e. g., presidential elections and United Nations General Assembly), and they generally reinforce the hegemonic discourse in Iran that emphasizes national pride and empowerment and is based on hostility toward the U. S. (Alemi, Tajeddin, & Rajabi Kondlaji, 2018;Jahangiry & Fattahi, 2012). This study contributes to our understanding of how discourse works in non-democratic contexts (Carreon & Svetanant, 2017;Sullivan & Sapir, 2012;Takal, 2018).…”

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A case study on the COVID-19 discourse in politicians’ speeches: Investigations into the speeches of former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani

Kermani,

Khorshidi,

Ashtiani Araghi

2023

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This paper aims to analyze former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s thirty speeches on COVID-19 delivered between February 2, 2020 and April 27, 2020. We apply Laclau and Mouffe’s theory of discourse analysis to investigate and analyze Rouhani’s rhetorical and discursive strategies in making meaning of COVID-19. Findings showed that COVID-19 discourse in Rouhani’s speeches has mainly revolved around three nodal points: “the country”, “the enemy”, and “the state of exception”. Thus, the structural articulation of COVID-19 discourse resembles the hegemonic discourse in Iran. Our results also explain how Rouhani used COVID-19 as an empty signifier to reinforce the hegemonic discourse in Iran while trying to redefine his relations with the state-leaning organizations. Furthermore, we analyzed the rhetorical practices that Rouhani employed to articulate the COVID-19 discourse. This paper contributes to a growing body of literature into discursive aspects and implications of a global pandemic by providing empirical evidence form an understudied context: Iran.

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A case study on the COVID-19 discourse in politicians’ speeches: Investigations into the speeches of former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani

Kermani,

Khorshidi,

Ashtiani Araghi

2023

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“…Since any one word can be an unreliable indicator of a complex concept, we designed a 'dictionary' (or battery of individual indicators) for the concepts 'tension', 'co-operation', 'status quo', 'one China', 'independence' in addition to indicators of reporting about the economy and democracy. The pre-defined dictionary approach using Yoshikoder has previously been employed in studies of PRC newspaper reports and Taiwanese presidential speeches (Sullivan and Renz, 2010;Sullivan and Sapir, 2012).…”

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Soft Power Runs into Popular Geopolitics: Western Media Frames Democratic Taiwan

Sullivan

Lee

2018

Int. J. Taiwan Stud.

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How does the Western media frame Taiwan? Analysing a large set of Western newspaper reports over the past two decades, this article provides the first systematic assessment of global coverage of Taiwan. Seeking to explain why Taiwan has been framed in the way it has, the article reports the views of journalists and editors and puts forward a framework based on popular geopolitics. The article concludes with a discussion of why media framing matters, and the implications for Taiwan’s public diplomacy and ‘soft power’ efforts.

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“…80For instruction on how to use Yoshikoder, see Stockman 2010. For applications with Chinese texts, see Sullivan and Lowe 2010; Sullivan and Renz 2010; Sullivan and Sapir 2012. For a critique of Yoshikoder and Wordscores applications using Chinese texts, see Chen 2011.…”

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Electronic Resources in the Study of Elite Political Behaviour in Taiwan

Sullivan

2013

The China Quarterly

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The objective of this article is to survey the abundance of primary source electronic data, and appropriate methods, which could be used to advance the study of elite politics in Taiwan. Research on public attitudes and voting behaviour has benefited enormously from open scholarly access to systematically collected, reliable data resources. Research on elite political behaviour in Taiwan could similarly benefit from the creation of supplementary datasets derived from electronic primary sources. I argue that the primary resources and methods needed are already in place, for instance, to produce quantitative estimates of the policy preferences and ideological positions of parties and individual political actors over time. A variety of political texts created by political actors at all levels of office (and indeed, in opposition) are readily accessible online. With a small degree of processing, these electronic texts can easily be rendered in machine-readable format for analysis by means of computer-assisted content analysis software. Despite successes in other contexts, these data and methods are currently underutilized in studies of elite political behaviour in Taiwan.

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Ma Ying-jeou's Presidential Discourse

Cited by 6 publications

References 47 publications

A case study on the COVID-19 discourse in politicians’ speeches: Investigations into the speeches of former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani

A case study on the COVID-19 discourse in politicians’ speeches: Investigations into the speeches of former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani

Soft Power Runs into Popular Geopolitics: Western Media Frames Democratic Taiwan

Electronic Resources in the Study of Elite Political Behaviour in Taiwan

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