A Pragma-Dialectical Approach to Trade Friction Discourse: A Case Study of a Public Letter in Sino-US Trade Friction on Tire Special Safeguard
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18002/sin.v3i2.5258Keywords:
trade friction discourse, Pragma-Dialectics, argumentative discourse, strategic maneuvering.Abstract
Based on the analytical framework of
Strategic Maneuvering, this paper analyzes and
evaluates the public letter from China Chamber
of Commerce of Metals, Minerals & Chemicals
Importers & Exporters (CCCMC) and China Rubber
Industry Association (CRIA) to Obama and
United States Trade Representative (USTR) on
July 27th, 2009 to reveal the discursive
strategies and their corresponding linguistic
realizations manipulated in tire special safeguard
case. The research results show that, strategic
maneuvering in CCCMC & CRIA’s public letters
is integratedly realized through choice of topical
potential, catering for audience demands and
choice of presentational devices, which is
supported by such argumentative strategies as
presupposition, contrast, appeal to audience's
values, appeal to authority, vagueness,
repetition, statistics, appeal to opponent ’ s
concession, and the like. CCCMC & CRIA’s public
letter has its shortcomings in clarification of
difference of opinion in the confrontation stage,
in choice of starting in the opening stage, in
choice of topics in the argumentation stage and
in manipulation of such specific argumentativerhetoric
strategies as ‘contrast’ and ‘statistics’.
In view of China’s merits and deficiency, China
should: (1) clarify the confrontation, opening,
argumentation and concluding stages of the
argumentative discourse and flexibly set the
dialectic and rhetoric aims of these four stages
according to the context; (2) strategically
maneuver among topical potential, audience
demand and presentational devices, in line with
the established dialectic and rhetoric aims in
different argumentative stages; (3) recognize
the institutional context of trade friction
discourse and the importance of language
expression, and cultivate an assertive image.
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