The language of identity discourse

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This paper attempts to model the discursive construction of identity in a way that retains its multifaceted dynamics within a coherent framework. It examines the construction of a sense of communities, shared values, and historical figures as part of a collective culture, and proposes a model of iconography for the study of the linguistic mechanisms underlying these discursive tropes in identity discourses. Focusing on the exoticization of Japanese identity in popular texts, the study seeks to map out the potential space of this iconography, drawing on the latest research in Systemic Functional Linguistics and Legitimation Code Theory.

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