Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/62801
Title: Constructing resistance in the quest for social justice
Contributor(s): Wijeyewardene, Ingrid  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2024-08-20
DOI: 10.1075/langct.00064.wij
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/62801
Abstract: 

This study adopts the concept of "positive peace" and draws on critical discourse studies to investigate the texts of two Thai activists responding to the 2006 coup d'état and subsequent events in Thailand. The study analyses the texts from a systemic functional linguistic (SFL) perspective to show how the first text challenges the legitimacy of the coup, and how the second text reflects a widening of the cracks then appearing in Thai royalist hegemony. In particular, the study compares the construal of one social actor in the first text published in 2007 with that in the speech of the second activist three years later, highlighting how the meaning of a key word evolved from one of oppression to one of pride.

Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Language, Context and Text, 6(1), p. 27-59
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co.
Place of Publication: The Netherlands
ISSN: 2589-7241
2589-7233
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 4704 Linguistics
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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