Critical Metaphor Analysis of Xi Jinping’s Chinese Dream Rhetoric

Bc. Filip Šebok

Bachelor's thesis

Anotácia:

Diplomová práca sa zaoberá analýzou rétoriky súčasného čínskeho prezidenta a generálneho tajomníka Komunistickej strany Xi Jinpinga. Pomocou metodologického prístupu "kritickej analýzy metafor" navrhnutého Charteris-Blackom sú analyzované prejavy Xi Jinpinga ku konceptu "čínskeho sna". Korpus bol zostavený z textov v oficálnej publikácii prezidentových prejavov. Metafory sú analyzované v kontexte ostatných rétorických stratégii za účelom odhalenia argumentačných techník a cieľov Xi Jinpingovej rétoriky.

Abstract:

This thesis analyses the rhetoric of the current Chairman of the Communist Party of China and President Xi Jinping, specifically his speeches on the Chinese Dream. Rhetoric of political leaders has been a subject of a considerable body of research, aiming at the content being communicated as well as strategies employed in the process. In case of China, the authoritative political system and the prominence of powerful leader personalities has also manifested in the important role of leader rhetoric in shaping the political environment. This thesis will specifically address the rhetoric of Xi Jinping as manifested in the selected speeches on Chinese Dream, his leading political slogan. Serving as a theoretical and analytical framework, the work of Lakoff and Johnson and others on conceptual metaphor and Charteris-Black’s Critical Metaphor Analysis will be utilized. The selected sample of speeches in original Chinese will be scanned for the use of conceptual metaphors and accompanying rhetorical devices which will be analyzed with a view to understanding their role in Xi’s communication of the Chinese Dream.

Keywords

Xi Jinping, rhetoric, metaphor, Chinese politics

Jazyk práce: English

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 30. 5. 2017

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Obhajoba proběhla 12. 6. 2017
• Vedúci: Ph.D. Wei-lun Lu
• Oponent: Mgr. Runya Qiaoan, BA

Masaryk University

Faculty of Arts

Bachelor programme / odbor:
International Territorial Studies / Culture Studies of China