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A Study on the Linguistic Framing of Mao Zedong's Revolutionary Poetics

  • The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
  • Abbr : JSLCKC
  • 2025, (75), pp.437-474
  • DOI : 10.16874/jslckc.2025..75.017
  • Publisher : Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Chinese Language and Literature
  • Received : January 10, 2025
  • Accepted : February 20, 2025
  • Published : February 28, 2025

Jang Junyoung 1

1한국외국어대학교

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ABSTRACT

Mao Zedong's revolutionary poetry served as a means of ‘language framing’ during China's socialist revolution. Mao Zedong's poetry advocated revolutionary realism, which inherited the realism of traditional Chinese poetry, and created a new socialist language context by borrowing the form of traditional poetry and fully incorporating the spirit of the revolution. Looking at the composition process in detail, it is as follows. First, through intense and repetitive crowd rhetoric, the crowd is 'People-ification' and the 'red' identity, the core value of socialism, is established through detailed descriptions of various existential experiences and delicate poetic narratives. In particular, he shared the entire process of the revolutionary struggle with the crowd through detailed descriptions of the hardships and experiences of overcoming adversity during the revolutionary struggle, naturally leading them to the battlefield of the revolutionary struggle. Second, the macroscopic scene description of the majestic natural scenery and the microscopic description of the revolutionary army's every move are combined to depict a revolutionary scene with a perfect sense of distance from far and near, thereby encouraging the participation of the crowd by giving the legitimacy and identity of the revolution through expansion of ‘semantic space’ and promoted mass participation in the revolution. Third, poetic tension was heightened through strong color contrasts such as white and red, and a clear revolutionary image of the meaning and value of the revolution was drawn by using appropriate poetic metaphors. Lastly, the various linguistic frames used in Mao Zedong's poetry have an impact on the public and constitute a political linguistic context, further establishing themselves as a linguistic mechanism in Chinese politics.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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