The Evolution of Metaphorical Language in Contemporary Chinese Political Discourse

• Paolo Magagnin - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile

Introduction

• Introduction
• Tiziana Lippiello, Maddalena Barenghi, Chen Yuehong 陈跃红

Part 1 Pre-Modern and Modern Literature

• Measuring Human Relations
  Continuities and Discontinuities in the Reading of the Lunyu 
• Tiziana Lippiello

• Bai Shouyi on Sima Qian and Ban Gu
• Hans van Ess

• '中国'之义：文中子的立身与存心
  The Notion of ‘Zhongguo’: The Life and Thought of Wenzhongzi
• Zhang Pei 张沛

• On the Literary Self-Consciousness of the Han, Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties
• Fu Gang 傅刚

• Traditional Chinese Jestbooks and Ming Revival
• Giulia Baccini

• 《水浒传》评论中对立思维的三次递进
  On the Three Stages of Contradictory Comments of The Water Margin
• Liu Yongqiang 刘永强

• Becoming a Couple
  Conversations and Couple Narrative in the Novella Jiao Hong ji
• Barbara Bisetto

• The Chapter Titles in Xiyou ji and Honglou meng
  Continuity and Discontinuity
• Nicholas Koss

Part 2 Contemporary Literature

• Comparative Literature and World Literature in an Age of Trans-cultural Dialogue
• Chen Yuehong 陈跃红

• The Tradition of Telling and the Desire of Showing in Ge Fei’s ‘Fictional Minds’
• Nicoletta Pesaro

• ‘晚郁时期’的中国当代文学
  'The Belated Mellow Period' of Chinese Contemporary Literature
• Chen Xiaoming 陈晓明

• The Pragmatic Tradition of Chinese Literature and the Current ‘Spirit of the Times’
• Marco Fumian

• Honma Hisao’s model of Literary Theory and its Influence in China
• Jin Yongbing 金永兵

• The Disillusionment with the Rural Utopia in Chinese Literature
• Wu Xiaodong 吴晓东

Part 3 Poetry and Theatre

• Traditions and Transitions in Eighteenth-Century Qu Poetry
  The Case of Jiang Shiquan (1725-1785)
• Tian Yuan Tan

• Feng Zhi and Goethe of Later Years
• Zhang Hui 张辉

• Liu Xie’s Wenxin diaolong, Ernest Fenollosa’s The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry and 20th Century Avant-garde
• Sean Golden

• What’s the Link between the Lyrical and Modernity in China?
  A Discussion on Chinese lyrical Modernity
• Li Yang 李杨

• Poetic Taste and Tasting Poetry
• Yang Zhu 杨铸

• Voices of the Dead
  Tao Yuanming and Emily Dickinson’s Poems on Their Own Death
• Qin Liyan 秦立彦

Part 4 Language and Political Discourse

• Modernity and Subjectivity from the Past to the Present
• Yang Xiaobin 杨小滨

• The Evolution of Metaphorical Language in Contemporary Chinese Political Discourse
  Preliminary Evidence from the 12th and 18th CPC Congresses
• Paolo Magagnin

• 论“底”来源于“者”
  On the Derivation of ‘di’ 底 from ‘zhě’ 者
• Yang Rongxiang 杨荣祥

Biographies

• Biographies

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_454
dc.contributor.author	Magagnin Paolo
dc.title	The Evolution of Metaphorical Language in Contemporary Chinese Political Discourse. Preliminary Evidence from the 12th and 18th CPC Congresses
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	The tools provided by corpus linguistics and textometric analysis, applied to a number of official speeches delivered by the leaders of the Communist Party of China (CPC) during its Congress, provide useful insight into the evolution of the linguistic material and discursive strategies used in official communication, especially when focusing on the period between the end of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) and the present day. In the post-Mao era, the progressive construction of a new political, socio-economic, and cultural context, along with the renegotiation or obsolescence of certain concepts and models, inevitably yields its specific vocabulary and rhetorical patterns, which can be detected both quantitatively and qualitatively. One of the most interesting levels of analysis in contemporary Chinese political discourse is the use of figurative language: by resorting to a preliminary textometric analysis conducted on the reports delivered at the 1982 and 2012 CPC Congresses, the main figurative devices observable in Chinese political discourse will be located and commented upon, investigating their diachronic transformation and significance in a changing context.
dc.relation.ispartof	Sinica venetiana
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2016-09-29
dc.dateSubmitted	2016-07-16
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-098-3/the-evolution-of-metaphorical-language-in-contempo/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/6969-095-2/SV-3-22
dc.identifier.issn	2610-9654
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9042
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-098-3
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-095-2
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	12th CPC Congress
dc.subject	12th CPC Congress
dc.subject	18th CPC Congress
dc.subject	18th CPC Congress
dc.subject	Chinese Political Discourse
dc.subject	Chinese Political Discourse
dc.subject	Metaphorical Language
dc.subject	Metaphorical Language
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