%0 Journal Article
%T Tracing ¡°Taiwanization¡± Processes in Taiwanese Presidential Statements in Times of Cross-Strait Rapprochement
%A Lutgard Lams
%A Xavier Li-wen Liao
%J Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
%D 2011
%I German Institute of Global and Area Studies, (GIGA)
%X Over the last few decades, Taiwanese society has witnessed processes of localization/ Taiwanization/ de- and re-Sinicization (Sinification), all vying for legitimacy. These trends in the nation-building process are played out on the state as well as the civil society level. It can thus be useful to examine whether societal (de-)localization trends are paralleled in any ideological repositioning of official and/or media discourses after a change in ruling party. The current article investigates an important discursive site in Taiwan¡¯s public space, the presidential discourse of the new Kuomintang (KMT) (Guomindang) era, starting from the inauguration address by President Ma Ying-jeou (Ma Yingjiu) on 20 May 2008.
%K Social sciences
%K Political science
%K Identity
%K Nation building
%K Presidential systems
%K 300
%K 301
%K 320
%K Taiwan
%K Contemporary
%U http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/404