Black humour as official slogan: The CDA from Chinese anti-epidemic discourse
Black humour is associated with illness, death, and crisis and is frequently used as grassroots resistance to hegemonic power. However, black humour has received little attention concerning how it is appropriated by the state. Thus, this study contributes to reconceptualise black humour as the anti-...
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| author | Chen, Yifan Gong, Qian Dovchin, Sender |
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| description | Black humour is associated with illness, death, and crisis and is frequently used as grassroots resistance to hegemonic power. However, black humour has received little attention concerning how it is appropriated by the state. Thus, this study contributes to reconceptualise black humour as the anti-epidemic slogans of the Chinese Communist Party by combining Bakhtin's carnivalesque and Van Leeuwen's (2007) legitimation strategies within Critical Discourse Analysis paradigm to investigate how inhumane slogans are legitimised. Our findings reveal that the CCP employs three legitimation strategies–authorisation, moral evaluation, and rationalisation–to maintain its power status through official slogans. This study offers a new perspective on how power relations are sustained and renegotiated through the official language in China. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-966812025-01-28T00:33:55Z Black humour as official slogan: The CDA from Chinese anti-epidemic discourse Chen, Yifan Gong, Qian Dovchin, Sender black humour legitmation strategy Carnivalesque power relation Critical Discourse Analysis Chinese official slogons Black humour is associated with illness, death, and crisis and is frequently used as grassroots resistance to hegemonic power. However, black humour has received little attention concerning how it is appropriated by the state. Thus, this study contributes to reconceptualise black humour as the anti-epidemic slogans of the Chinese Communist Party by combining Bakhtin's carnivalesque and Van Leeuwen's (2007) legitimation strategies within Critical Discourse Analysis paradigm to investigate how inhumane slogans are legitimised. Our findings reveal that the CCP employs three legitimation strategies–authorisation, moral evaluation, and rationalisation–to maintain its power status through official slogans. This study offers a new perspective on how power relations are sustained and renegotiated through the official language in China. 2024 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/96681 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.002 English http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Elsevier fulltext |
| spellingShingle | black humour legitmation strategy Carnivalesque power relation Critical Discourse Analysis Chinese official slogons Chen, Yifan Gong, Qian Dovchin, Sender Black humour as official slogan: The CDA from Chinese anti-epidemic discourse |
| title | Black humour as official slogan: The CDA from Chinese anti-epidemic discourse |
| title_full | Black humour as official slogan: The CDA from Chinese anti-epidemic discourse |
| title_fullStr | Black humour as official slogan: The CDA from Chinese anti-epidemic discourse |
| title_full_unstemmed | Black humour as official slogan: The CDA from Chinese anti-epidemic discourse |
| title_short | Black humour as official slogan: The CDA from Chinese anti-epidemic discourse |
| title_sort | black humour as official slogan: the cda from chinese anti-epidemic discourse |
| topic | black humour legitmation strategy Carnivalesque power relation Critical Discourse Analysis Chinese official slogons |
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