Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China

• Main Author: Paul Chilton (auth)
• Other Authors: Hailong Tian (auth), Qing Cao (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: John Benjamins Publishing Company 2014
• Series: Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture
• Subjects: Discourse studies; China; Communication studies
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

After three and a half decades of economic reforms, radical changes have occurred in all aspects of life in China. In an authoritarian society, these changes are mediated significantly through the power of language, carefully controlled by the political elites. Discourse, as a way of speaking and do...