Jedna suverenita, dvě publika: Analýza diskurzu o suverenitě v projevech Si Ťin-pchinga k domácímu a mezinárodnímu publiku

Brada, Pavel

This thesis examines how Xi Jinping constructs sovereignty for domestic and international audiences in his political speeches. A theoretical framework consisted of performative theory of sovereignty, Laclau and Mouffe's discourse theory and Fairclough's critical discourse analysis is employed. Sixteen of Xi Jinping's speeches are divided into two corpora - speeches primarily oriented at domestic and at international audiences. These texts are manually coded in the MAXQDA software and consequently analysed. The results show that Xi Jinping's sovereignty discourse for the domestic audience is organized around three nodal points of Great Rejuvenation, territorial integrity and development. Internationally, sovereignty is constructed via nodal points of development and sovereign equality. As a result, the concept of sovereignty does have partially overlapping meaning while having partially audience-specific meaning. Thus, it can be treated as a "semi-empty" signifier, with its meaning partially derived from the concepts and themes it is articulated with. Findings of this thesis have practical relevance, as shared understanding of concepts is foundational for international communication, thus, realizing the existence of different Xi's sovereignty discourses can mitigate possible misunderstandings.

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