Transcultural political communication from the perspective of proximization theory: A comparative analysis on the corpuses of the Sino–US trade war

Chen, Lijuan; Zhang, Danyang; He, Yingfei; Zhang, Guoliang

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“…Since then, Cap and other scholars have continued to expand its application field. So far, political discourses have remained its main field of application, including (anti-)immigration discourse (e.g., Cap, 2017; Cervi et al, 2020), terrorism brochures (e.g., Kirke, 2015), Sino-US trade war (e.g., Chen et al, 2020), and other international conflicts (e.g., Berrocal, 2019). Political metaphors are also present in other discourses, such as the analogy between invasive species in environmental discourse and immigrants in immigration discourse (Mando and Stack, 2019).…”

Section: Theoretical Framework: Proximization Theorymentioning

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A study on the discourse strategy of telecommunication fraud based on proximization theory

Chen

2022

Discourse & Communication

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Drawing on the proximization theory, this study investigated the characteristics and expected effects of proximization strategies in the discourse of telecommunication fraud through the textual analysis of samples selected among 2738 fraudulent texts. The results demonstrated a dominant use of spatial proximization strategy, which imitated the main features of institutional discourse to establish a community of interest with the recipients. Moreover, the use of various verb phrases made the recipients feel the imminence of threats or benefits. Additionally, the urgency and importance of the event created by the temporal proximization strategy also served to establish a cooperative relationship between the fraudsters and the recipients. The axiological proximization strategy served as a complementary tool to facilitate the realization of the above two strategies. This study could help with the identification of fraudulent content in texts and the creative production of the anti-fraud materials.

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Section: Theoretical Framework: Proximization Theorymentioning

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A study on the discourse strategy of telecommunication fraud based on proximization theory

Chen

2022

Discourse & Communication

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Inside the echo chamber

Cheng

2023

JLP

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In the context of the China-USA trade dispute, this study reports a discourse analysis of legitimation tactics used in the People’s Daily, a major English-language news outlet produced by the Communist Party of China (CPC). My analysis centres on a dataset of 65 commentaries between March 2018 and January 2020, and identifies the five key tactics at work: authorization, moralization, rationalization, hypothetical future, and integration. These tactics (and their sub-tactics) are deployed for delegitimating the US-initiated “America First” trade policy, and for legitimating the Chinese state’s position and countermeasures. Orienting to Western scholarship about the news media’s role as an “echo chamber” for State/political agendas, I compare the pattern of legitimation in the People’s Daily commentaries with the pattern previously found in an analysis of Chinese state white papers. This comparison highlights key similarities but also differences in terms of genre, language, and ideological coherence.

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The pragmatics of alternative futures in political discourses

Basarati

Rezaei

Amouzadeh

2023

PRAG

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We shall concentrate on how the construction and modality system of alternative futures in political discourses are influenced by the construal of past-to-present threats and preemptive politics. Using Dunmire’s (2005) proposed framework and further explorations by Cap (2020) on the subject, we approach twenty of Trump’s speeches on Iran, from 2017–2020. Our analyses indicated that the construction of alternative futures is modified by the evaluations of Iran’s past-to-present status and the politics of preemption. This relationship modifies the speaker’s epistemic judgment on the certainty of the privileged future, the cause-effect relation, and the sceptic views on the successful implementation of preemptive measures, resulting in the articulation of the privileged future through probabilistic and dynamic modalities. Moreover, the privileged future is conceptualised as necessary through deontic modality. By contrast, the realisation of the oppositional future is articulated through unmediated modality pinpointing the status that will materialise in light of inaction and negligence.

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Transcultural political communication from the perspective of proximization theory: A comparative analysis on the corpuses of the Sino–US trade war

Cited by 8 publications

References 44 publications

A study on the discourse strategy of telecommunication fraud based on proximization theory

A study on the discourse strategy of telecommunication fraud based on proximization theory

Inside the echo chamber

The pragmatics of alternative futures in political discourses

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