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Jiang Zemin’s discourse on intellectuals: the political use of formalised language and the conundrum of stability
Jiang Zemin's Diskurs um die Intellektuellen: die politische Verwendung der formalisierten Sprache und das Rätsel der Stabilität
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Abstract This article focuses on the specific forms of power that are embodied in the properties and functions of formalised language, as it was used by Jiang Zemin in crucial political documents on the Party’s policy towards intellectuals. This inquiry illuminates various possibilities for the normalisation... view more
This article focuses on the specific forms of power that are embodied in the properties and functions of formalised language, as it was used by Jiang Zemin in crucial political documents on the Party’s policy towards intellectuals. This inquiry illuminates various possibilities for the normalisation and inculcation of formalised language in the understudied decade of the 1990s, when the mantra “without stability, nothing can be achieved” became a tautology. The internal constitution of the selected texts is examined with an eye to the dialogic interaction with the production and reception of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping’s political discourses on intellectuals (Mao 1942; Deng 1978). The analysis of language practices and discursive formations in a comparative perspective sheds light on the respective socio-political and historical contexts. It also reveals the extreme involution-devolution of formalised language in the Jiang Zemin era, when “preserving stability” was reaffirmed as a crucial concern of the Party leadership with the ultimate aim of preserving its monopoly of power.... view less
Keywords
party politics; social stability; intellectual; speech; discourse; language; political stability; political power; politics; China; ideology
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Free Keywords
stability preservation; weiwen; Jiang Zemin
Document language
English
Publication Year
2013
Page/Pages
p. 111-140
Journal
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 42 (2013) 2
Issue topic
Preserving stability: process, dimensions and ideological exercise
ISSN
1868-4874
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works