Power of Language, Language of Power: Where Conceptual History Meets Political History

0487258 - OÚ 2018 RIV eng U - Conference, Workshop Arrangement
Dluhošová, Táňa
Power of Language, Language of Power: Where Conceptual History Meets Political History.
[Taipei, 18.11.2016-19.11.2016, (K-WRD 23/20)]
Institutional support: RVO:68378009
Keywords : Chinese literature * China * Language and politics
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

The conference was jointly organized in Taipei by our Research Centre in Taiwan and the Department of Chinese Literature (National Chengchi University). The participants addressed a seeming opposition between language and reality, political discourse and political practice. Whilst it has been widely recognized that discourse on politics and political action are inextricably intertwined, the complex relationship between these two overlapping and mutually interacting areas remains difficult to define, to comprehend, and to operationalize in the form of actual research projects. The workshop was intended to address the interplay between language and politics on the basis of case studies as well as theoretical and methodological reflections about politics and political discourse in modern and contemporary China with regard to power, broadly understood
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0281928