Affective positioning in China–US security communication in Asia: Evidence from Shangri-La Dialogue speeches (2014–2023)
Journal of Asian and African Studies
Published online on June 23, 2026
Abstract
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This study examines affective positioning in Chinese and US Shangri-La Dialogue texts between 2014 and 2023 in order to explore how emotion functions in elite security communication. Drawing on a corpus of 16 country-year texts (2911 sentences) from the ...
This study examines affective positioning in Chinese and US Shangri-La Dialogue texts between 2014 and 2023 in order to explore how emotion functions in elite security communication. Drawing on a corpus of 16 country-year texts (2911 sentences) from the ...