While neoliberal ethos has seen a consistent spread and reterritorialization beyond its Anglo‐American roots, the specific inflections of neoliberalism and its discourse have had to be recontextualized to fit with context‐specific values and structures of government/governance. Adopting a critical discourse‐analytic approach, this paper looks at the case of Singapore to probe the discursive moves and tropes deployed to communicate and legitimate a neoliberal‐oriented, authoritarian governance in a wealthy society marked by a high level of inequality. It shows how Singapore's ‘Asian’ sociopolitical context and its post‐Confucian heritage are amenable to a strategic discursive melding of a more conventional self‐interested, neoliberal individualism with a more locally‐situated traditionalist collective/communitarian ethos, with the latter functioning as a discursive‐moralizing trope to encourage acquiescence to a market‐fundamentalist agenda for ‘the greater/common good’.

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后儒家国家的新自由主义重新语境化和合法化

尽管新自由主义精神在其英美根源之外已经出现了持续的传播和重新领土化，但新自由主义及其话语的特定变化必须重新进行语境化，以适应特定于上下文的价值观和政府/治理结构。本文采用批判性的话语分析方法，以新加坡为例，探讨了在以高度不平等为特征的富裕社会中，为交流和合法化新自由主义专制统治而采取的话语举止和倾向。它显示了新加坡的“亚洲”社会政治背景及其后儒家传统如何将战略性的话语融合，将更传统的自私，新自由主义个人主义与更本地化的传统主义集体/社区主义精神融为一体，