Language and Literature in a Glocal World by Sandhya Rao Mehta

Author:Sandhya Rao Mehta
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Springer Singapore, Singapore

John Key discursively constructs an oppositional discourse of old and new, through a chain of equivalence. The current flag is constructed as old, obsolete and dated, hence discursively constructing a need for a new flag. The current flag embodies Gallipoli, to which, subsequently, John Key links struggle, sacrifice, endurance, mateship, identity and loyalty—all value based attributes. He is cherry picking on the signified of the current flag—concentrating primarily on World War I events—as if the current flag signified only those, leaving aside the remaining elements in the field of discursivity of the current flag:But the current flag represents the thinking by and about a young country moving from the 1800s to the 1900s. A time before commercial air travel. A time when we had less of a role in the Pacific, and a time before Asia registered in our consciousness. That was a time before the rise of superpowers and before we had forged a formidable reputation on the battlefields of Europe. It was prior to the first tour by the New Zealand Rugby Union to the UK, and when our forebears thought their colonial protector would always be there for their descendants . (Key, 2014, p. 1)

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