Integrating CDA with ideological rhetorical criticism in the investigation of Abe Cabinet’s discursive construction in “Indo-Pacific Strategy”

• Weiqi Tian ^[3] ; Hongmei Chai ^[1] ; Lin Lu ^[2]
  1. [1] Dalian University of Foreign Languages

     Dalian University of Foreign Languages

     China

     
  2. [2] Eastern Liaoning University

     Eastern Liaoning University

     China

     
  3. [3] Dalian Minzu University

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• Localización: Journal of language and politics, ISSN 1569-2159, Vol. 21, Nº. 3, 2022, págs. 435-458
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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.