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In recent years, increasing interests have been taken in the role of language in International Relations (IR). The significance of this "linguistic turn" emerging in IR studies lies in its attempts to explore howmeanings are given to peoples and events in IR by the game of language, and howthey, in turn, help reshape and reproduce "realities" in IR. The instability, multidimensionality and disputability of symbolic meanings not only challenge the basis of hegemonic discourse in IR, but also make aware the necessity of understanding the different "realities" in IR. Thus international politics is a field of struggle not only for the competition of physical capabilities,but also for the dominance of discourse meanings.

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