National identity premises in Pakistani social media debate over patriotism

• Snobra Rizwan ^[1]
  1. [1] Bahauddin Zakariya University

     Bahauddin Zakariya University

     Pakistán

     
• Localización: Journal of language and politics, ISSN 1569-2159, Vol. 18, Nº. 2, 2019, págs. 291-311
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper focuses on critical discourse analysis of national identity premises as they enter in Pakistan’s social media debate over patriotism and treason. Drawing on a theoretical framework that calls attention to the embeddedness of religious and nationalistic ideas in identification paradigm of a society, the analysis emphasizes the naturalized link in motivational/inspirational and factual/circumstantial premises and the discursive and non-discursive practices of a culture. It also shows how (supposed) lack of a clear sense of national identity is intrinsically connected to a politicized understanding of national and anti-national identities, since anti-national identity is made salient as an obstacle in path toward national acceptance, and thus as a threat to national security. This, it is argued, is achieved through certain discursive strategies and non-discursive acts which serve to position undesirable anti-nationals as simultaneously in need of proving their patriotism and ineligible for integration into a broader national identification paradigm.