Rivista | Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
Fascicolo | 53 | 2017
Articolo | Mapping Ideology in Language

Mapping Ideology in Language

Martina Codeluppi - Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Italia - email orcid profile

Abstract

Ideology can play a significant role in shaping literary representations of contemporary China. This study aims to demonstrate that a close reading of the authors’ use of language can reveal the influence of ideology on the literary texts, even when it comes to authors whose positions towards P.R.C. are diametrically opposite. The analysis compares Han Dong’s Zha gen (Banished!) and Ma Jian’s Rou zhi tu (Beijing Coma), implementing Fairclough’s model for Critical Discourse Analysis on vocabulary and grammar. The experiential, relational, and expressive values coded in the texts reveal different tendencies in the authors’ attitudes when representing social reality. Nonetheless, they prove the existence of common ideological features underlying the authors’ literary expression.

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Presentato: 17 Novembre 2016 | Accettato: 28 Febbraio 2017 | Pubblicato 20 Giugno 2017 | Lingua: en

Keywords Banished! Beijing Coma • Ma Jian • Han Dong • Ideology • Critical Discourse Analysis

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dc.title	Mapping Ideology in Language. Han Dong’s Zha gen (Banished!) and Ma Jian’s Rou zhi tu (Beijing Coma)
dc.contributor.author	Codeluppi Martina
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
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dc.description.abstract	Ideology can play a significant role in shaping literary representations of contemporary China. This study aims to demonstrate that a close reading of the authors’ use of language can reveal the influence of ideology on the literary texts, even when it comes to authors whose positions towards P.R.C. are diametrically opposite. The analysis compares Han Dong’s Zha gen (Banished!) and Ma Jian’s Rou zhi tu (Beijing Coma), implementing Fairclough’s model for Critical Discourse Analysis on vocabulary and grammar. The experiential, relational, and expressive values coded in the texts reveal different tendencies in the authors’ attitudes when representing social reality. Nonetheless, they prove the existence of common ideological features underlying the authors’ literary expression.
dc.relation.ispartof	Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 53 \| Giugno 2017
dc.issued	2017-06-20
dc.dateAccepted	2017-02-28
dc.dateSubmitted	2016-11-17
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2385-3042
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/2385-3042/AnnOr-53-17-9
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Banished! Beijing Coma
dc.subject	Banished! Beijing Coma
dc.subject	Critical Discourse Analysis
dc.subject	Critical Discourse Analysis
dc.subject	Han Dong
dc.subject	Han Dong
dc.subject	Ideology
dc.subject	Ideology
dc.subject	Ma Jian
dc.subject	Ma Jian
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