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Title: | The discursive construction of legitimacy in the abrogation of Indian Constitution's Article 370 | Authors: | Bhatia, A | Issue Date: | Oct-2021 | Source: | Journal of pragmatics, Oct. 2021, v. 183, p. 132-141 | Abstract: | In August 2019, India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, took the historic decision of abrogating Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, which revoked Kashmir's special status. The contentious move resulted in the emergence of two key competing narratives, with political supporters hailing the abrogation as the liberation of the nation from decades of secessionism and terrorism; and opponents representing it as an assault on democracy and the Constitution. This paper will analyze political contrast in the narratives of political supporters and opponents and how each side discursively represented the abrogation to legitimatize their respective versions of reality. To conduct the analysis, I will draw on Author's (2015) theoretical framework of the Discourse of Illusion, with application to analysis of data occurring from three aspects: historicity (use of the past to justify the present or predict the future); linguistic and semiotic action (subjective conceptualizations of the world made apparent through significant meta-phorical rhetoric); and the degree of social impact (the rise of delineating categories as a result of one's rhetoric). | Keywords: | Discursive illusions Political contrast Categorization Metaphor India-Article 370 |
Publisher: | Elsevier | Journal: | Journal of pragmatics | ISSN: | 0378-2166 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.pragma.2021.07.009 | Rights: | © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. © 2021. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. The following publication Bhatia, A. (2021). The discursive construction of legitimacy in the abrogation of Indian Constitution's Article 370. Journal of Pragmatics, 183, 132-141 is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2021.07.009. |
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