“普世价值”还是“共同价值”:论价值宣传的策略性建构

“Universal Values”or“Common Values”: A Construction of Value-related Publicity

习近平在联合国大会上提出"和平、发展、公平、正义、民主、自由,是全人类的共同价值",这一表述使近年来有关"普世价值"的议题再次成为舆论的热点。从话语与修辞的视角来看,无论"普世价值"还是"共同价值",实质上都是一种因时、因地、因人制宜的话语构筑,是政治宣传的策略性手段。正确认识和合理运用价值宣传的构筑性本质既有助于我们更好地理解和践行社会主义核心价值观,也能让我国在对外交流中站稳脚跟,掌握话语主导权。

President Xi Jinping claimed in his UNspeech that“peace,development,fairness,justice,freedom,and the like,are commonvalues of the human society”,which revives the discussion about“common values”in China.Froma discourse-and-rhetoric perspective,both the two terms are strategies of political publicity and are in essence a rhetorical construction based on varied time,space and audience.To learn about and employ the constructive characteristics of value-related publicity can not only better our understanding of ourown socialist core values,but it can also help us establish an active and critical stance in international communications.