Rule by law versus rule of law

A multimodal analysis of persuasion and legal ideologies in anti-corruption discourse in China

Dados Bibliográficos

ID22223166
AutoresChuanyou Yuan (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies), Yufei He (0009-0008-3761-9073, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, autor correspondente), Yujie Liu (0000-0003-3910-511X, Beijing Jiaotong University)
Ano2021
Volume1
Fascículo4
Páginas429-454
Data de publicação2021-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoMultimodality & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2634-9795 • E-ISSN: 2634-9809
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/26349795211060751
OpenAlexW3216562885
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas20

The authors conduct a multimodal analysis of the anti-corruption discourse in China by employing the SFL genre theory and the SF-MDA approach. Anti-corruption discourse that popularizes the anti-corruption mechanism and educates the officials constitutes an important part of China’s anti-corruption campaign. This paper first presents a genre analysis of a corpus of 51 anti-corruption videos on the official public legal education website to examine how these videos are designed in their overall organization to achieve the persuasion purpose—alert officials to stay away from corruption. It is found that most anti-corruption videos are expositions that are embedded with different story genres and emphasize the negative consequence of corruption on one’s family. Using Multimodal Analysis Video software, the authors then analyze the different reader stances enacted through a range of multimodal resources in three representative anti-corruption videos. Based on the detailed multimodal analysis, the authors finally explain how the use of linguistic and visual resources in the videos realizes the underlying ideologies of rule by law and rule of law and future implications of this study

China · Ideology · Language change · Law and economics · Linguistics · Persuasion · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Rule of law · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Psychology · Social Psychology · Translation Studies and Practices