| 英文摘要 |
The case 709, or ＂China's massive arrest of rights lawyers on July 9, 2015＂, was about the event that China launched an abrupt massive arrest movement over more than 300 rights lawyers, citizens, staffs or relatives related to those lawyers. Many foreign media reports suggested that this was a political crackdown rather than a case of criminal offence due to its unexpected huge scale and lack of legitimate legal process. The case is analyzed through the notion of political discourse theories developed primarily by E. Laclau and C. Mouffe to explain how various media by China and media from Hong Kong, Taiwan, UK and US, constructed various identities of these lawyers, how these various ＂dislocations＂ have been subtly constructed through different ＂elements' and ＂signifiers＂ according to political discourse analysis. There are two methodologies used, the first one is content analysis, including quantitative analysis of the amount, words count and position bias of different media. The second one is qualitative method of political discourse analysis adopted to compare how various media construct identity locations/dislocations of rights lawyers. Finally, the paper discussed what are their implications for democratic societies. |
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