Discursive Competition: Narrative Tensions in Chinese Literacy and Socio-religious Discourse

DOI: 10.5176/2251-3566_L314.53

Authors: Jeff Schonberg

Abstract: This paper uses W. Labov’s and J. Waletzky’s notion of narrative clause functions as the analytical starting point for exploring the tension characterizing Chinese government-sponsored modernization discourses and socio-religious counter discourses produced by a Jone-speaking animist minority population living in the Li Shan (Black Horse Mountains) of Western China.

Keywords: linguistics; discourse analysis; modernization; narrative analysis