黑色幽默作为官方口号：来自中国抗疫话语的CDA

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Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI:10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.002

Yifan Chen, Qian Gong, Sender Dovchin

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黑色幽默与疾病、死亡和危机联系在一起，经常被用作草根阶层对霸权的反抗。然而，黑色幽默在如何被国家挪用的问题上却很少受到关注。因此，本研究通过在批判话语分析范式中结合巴赫金的狂欢式和范莱文（2007）的合法化策略来研究非人道的口号是如何合法化的，从而有助于将黑色幽默重新定义为中国共产党的抗流行病口号。我们的研究结果表明，中共采用了授权、道德评价和合理化三种正当化策略，通过官方口号来维持其权力地位。本研究为权力关系如何通过中国官方语言维持和重新谈判提供了一个新的视角。

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Black humour as official slogan: The CDA from Chinese anti-epidemic discourse

Black humour is associated with illness, death, and crisis and is frequently used as grassroots resistance to hegemonic power. However, black humour has received little attention concerning how it is appropriated by the state. Thus, this study contributes to reconceptualise black humour as the anti-epidemic slogans of the Chinese Communist Party by combining Bakhtin's carnivalesque and Van Leeuwen's (2007) legitimation strategies within Critical Discourse Analysis paradigm to investigate how inhumane slogans are legitimised. Our findings reveal that the CCP employs three legitimation strategies–authorisation, moral evaluation, and rationalisation–to maintain its power status through official slogans. This study offers a new perspective on how power relations are sustained and renegotiated through the official language in China.

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