CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Peragovics, Tamás Ferenc |
|---|---|
| Title | Dragon-Slayers and Panda-Huggers - Understanding Chinese-American Interactions from a Language Game Perspective |
| Summary | Chinese-American relations constitute a complex web of interactions which displays signs of both cooperation and defiance. While fruitful military engagements are unthinkable because of the strong senses of mutual animosity, Washington and Beijing do their best to avoid a major breakdown in their economic relations. Such empirical diversity is not explored sufficiently by rationalist theories of International Relations because they are blind to the social context within which any interaction unfolds. The thesis argues that an approach which is able to identify the social context is better equipped to make sense of such interactions. Building on the Wittgensteinian notion of the language game, the thesis demonstrates that any interaction is contingent on the meanings and understandings that the participants of the interaction construct through language. The usefulness of the language game approach is illustrated in two empirical chapters, one about the 2001 Spy Plane and the other about the so-called mergers and acquisitions interactions between Chinese and American companies. |
| Supervisor | Kurowska, Xymena |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/peragovics_tamas.pdf |
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