Aditi Bhatia
List of John Benjamins publications in which Aditi Bhatia is involved.
2026 India’s war on its history of humiliation: A Discourse of Illusion approach Discourses of War and Peace: 21st century perspectives, Ilie, Cornelia (ed.), pp. 96–123 | Chapter
In India, since Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) rise to power, socio-political discourse has increasingly been reconfigured through the lens of Hindutva (a conflation of religious and national identity). This includes the revision of history books to diminish India’s Mughal influence and… read more
2023 Legitimation in revolutionary discourse: A critical examination of the discourse of Jerry John Rawlings Journal of Language and Politics 22:1, pp. 66–86 | Article
This paper analyzes the legitimation strategies used by Jerry John Rawlings, a Ghanaian revolutionary leader, to license his revolutionary actions, including political enemy executions and a crackdown on corrupt practices. It adapts and extends van Leeuwen’s legitimation framework by… read more
2022 “We shall not flag or fail, we shall go on to the end”: Hashtag activism in Hong Kong protests Language, Politics and Media: The Hong Kong Protests, Wang, Guofeng and Ming Liu (eds.), pp. 117–142 | Article
Focusing on the anti-extradition bill protests in Hong Kong, this article presents an analysis of Twitter posts adopting the hashtags #antiELAB, #NoChinaExtradition and #HongKongProtests. The analysis explores the public narrative among the collective identity of Hongkongers opposing the… read more
2016 Discursive construction of the ‘key’ moment in the Umbrella Movement Occupy Hong Kong: Historicizing Protest, Flowerdew, John and Rodney H. Jones (eds.), pp. 549–566 | Article
A mass civil disobedience movement brought Hong Kong’s key business and commercial districts to a standstill in September 2014 when low-key class boycotts coalesced into a wide-scale social movement propelled by thousands of people who flocked to the support of student protestors after an… read more
2008 Discursive illusions in the American National Strategy for Combating Terrorism Journal of Language and Politics 7:2, pp. 201–227 | Article
Social realities are often negotiated and determined by elite groups of society, including political and religious leaders, the mass media, and even professional experts, who give meaning to complex, multifaceted constructs such as terrorism consistent with their individual socio-political agendas. read more