Jennifer M. Wei

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jennifer M. Wei is involved.

Articles

Wei, Jennifer M. and Ren-feng Duann 2019 Who are we? Contesting meanings in the speeches of national leaders in Taiwan during the authoritarian period Journal of Language and Politics 18:5, pp. 760–781 | Article

This paper analyzes how political aspirations and convictions during Taiwan’s authoritarian period (from the 1940s to 1996) are expressed through first-person plural pronouns. Combining both corpus-assisted method and discourse historical analysis (DHA, Wodak et al. 1999), we compared the… read more

Wei, Jennifer M. 2017 Chang, Hui-Ching & Richard Holt, 2014. Language, Politics and Identity in Taiwan Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 27:1, pp. 158–160 | Review

Wei, Jennifer M. 2000 An analysis of the metaphorical usage of campaign slogans in the 1996 presidential campaign in Taiwan Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 10:1, pp. 93–114 | Article

This paper explores a variety of metaphors notably, war, revenge, and a journey of spirituality awakening — used by the 1996 presidential and vice-presidential candidates in Taiwan. It uses the 1996 presidential election rhetoric as a case study to analyze how political ideologies, tactics and… read more