Maria Cheng
Biographic Data
| ID | 6566258 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Cheng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Cheng |
| SIGNATURE | CHENG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3059-6274 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Acclaims, attacks, defenses: Critical discourse analysis of Ma Ying-jeou’s 2012 Taiwan presidential debates discourse
Taiwan, under both domestic socio-political pressures and exogenous diplomatic shocks, underwent a democratization process since the 80s in the last century. Presidential debates became a part of the election benefiting from Taiwan’s media liberalization, and are closely related to the Taiwan’s democratization process. Ma Ying-jeou’s landslide victory in the 2008 Taiwan Presidential Election marked Taiwan’s second democratic transfer of power (wi…
The power of persuasion: Modality and issue framing in the 2012 Taiwan Presidential Debates
Presidential debates have become a pre-election fixture in Taiwan since the first-ever televised presidential debate held in 2004. In the 2012 Taiwan presidential election, it was a three-way contest among the incumbent Ma Ying-jeou of the Kuomintang (KMT) and the two challengers: Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and James Soong of the People First Party (PFP). The crucial issues in this presidential race were the domestic e…
Constructing a new political spectacle: Tactics of Chen Shui-bian’s 2000 and 2004 Inaugural Speeches
This article explores how the Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian 1 uses political language rhetoric as a powerful tool to defuse dangerously tense relations with China, repair relations with the US government and gain public support in the country. I focus on Chen’s inaugural speeches delivered on 20 May 2000 2 and 2004 3 , which present the rationale for his new administration and his socio-political ideologies, and I review his political spectacle…
The Standoff — what is unsaid? A pragmatic analysis of the conditional marker `if
News leaves many things unsaid; as in diplomatic discourse or political discourse, frequent use is made of `implicatures' (Grice, 1975), in order to suggest information not explicitly expressed in the text. These inferences are usually based on particular beliefs, opinions and knowledge of some concrete situation. This article attempts to explore the stances, intentions and ideologies of the United States and China that underlie news stories of t…
Constructing a new political spectacle: Tactics of Chen Shui-bian’s 2000 and 2004 Inaugural Speeches
This article explores how the Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian 1 uses political language rhetoric as a powerful tool to defuse dangerously tense relations with China, repair relations with the US government and gain public support in the country. I focus on Chen’s inaugural speeches delivered on 20 May 2000 2 and 2004 3 , which present the rationale for his new administration and his socio-political ideologies, and I review his political spectacle…
The Standoff — what is unsaid? A pragmatic analysis of the conditional marker `if
News leaves many things unsaid; as in diplomatic discourse or political discourse, frequent use is made of `implicatures' (Grice, 1975), in order to suggest information not explicitly expressed in the text. These inferences are usually based on particular beliefs, opinions and knowledge of some concrete situation. This article attempts to explore the stances, intentions and ideologies of the United States and China that underlie news stories of t…
The power of persuasion: Modality and issue framing in the 2012 Taiwan Presidential Debates
Presidential debates have become a pre-election fixture in Taiwan since the first-ever televised presidential debate held in 2004. In the 2012 Taiwan presidential election, it was a three-way contest among the incumbent Ma Ying-jeou of the Kuomintang (KMT) and the two challengers: Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and James Soong of the People First Party (PFP). The crucial issues in this presidential race were the domestic e…
Acclaims, attacks, defenses: Critical discourse analysis of Ma Ying-jeou’s 2012 Taiwan presidential debates discourse
Taiwan, under both domestic socio-political pressures and exogenous diplomatic shocks, underwent a democratization process since the 80s in the last century. Presidential debates became a part of the election benefiting from Taiwan’s media liberalization, and are closely related to the Taiwan’s democratization process. Ma Ying-jeou’s landslide victory in the 2008 Taiwan Presidential Election marked Taiwan’s second democratic transfer of power (wi…
The Standoff — what is unsaid? A pragmatic analysis of the conditional marker `if
News leaves many things unsaid; as in diplomatic discourse or political discourse, frequent use is made of `implicatures' (Grice, 1975), in order to suggest information not explicitly expressed in the text. These inferences are usually based on particular beliefs, opinions and knowledge of some concrete situation. This article attempts to explore the stances, intentions and ideologies of the United States and China that underlie news stories of t…
Constructing a new political spectacle: Tactics of Chen Shui-bian’s 2000 and 2004 Inaugural Speeches
This article explores how the Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian 1 uses political language rhetoric as a powerful tool to defuse dangerously tense relations with China, repair relations with the US government and gain public support in the country. I focus on Chen’s inaugural speeches delivered on 20 May 2000 2 and 2004 3 , which present the rationale for his new administration and his socio-political ideologies, and I review his political spectacle…
The power of persuasion: Modality and issue framing in the 2012 Taiwan Presidential Debates
Presidential debates have become a pre-election fixture in Taiwan since the first-ever televised presidential debate held in 2004. In the 2012 Taiwan presidential election, it was a three-way contest among the incumbent Ma Ying-jeou of the Kuomintang (KMT) and the two challengers: Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and James Soong of the People First Party (PFP). The crucial issues in this presidential race were the domestic e…
Acclaims, attacks, defenses: Critical discourse analysis of Ma Ying-jeou’s 2012 Taiwan presidential debates discourse
Taiwan, under both domestic socio-political pressures and exogenous diplomatic shocks, underwent a democratization process since the 80s in the last century. Presidential debates became a part of the election benefiting from Taiwan’s media liberalization, and are closely related to the Taiwan’s democratization process. Ma Ying-jeou’s landslide victory in the 2008 Taiwan Presidential Election marked Taiwan’s second democratic transfer of power (wi…
Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (4 works) · Ideology (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works)