Article published in:
Language, Politics and Media: The Hong Kong ProtestsEdited by Guofeng Wang and Ming Liu
[Journal of Language and Politics 21:1] 2022
► pp. 37–59
The politics of fear in Hong Kong protest representations
A corpus-assisted discourse study
Ming Liu | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Jingxue Ma | Sun Yat-sen University
This study gives a corpus-assisted discourse study of the representations of 2019 Hong Kong protests in the New
York Times. With the corpus-analytic tools Wmatrix and Wordsmith, it examines both the dominant patterns in its representations
and the specific strategies used. The findings suggest that while NYT still draws on the traditional patterns in its representations of Hong
Kong protests, it deviates from the protest paradigm in its representations of concerned parties. Meanwhile, emotion discourse has emerged
as a distinct strategy in its representations. This is most revealing in the emotion of fear, and a close analysis of its use in its context
has revealed its role in the construction of concerned parties and the distrust of Hong Kong people towards the Chinese government.
Keywords: protests, Hong Kong, corpus-assisted discourse study, emotion, fear
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Emotion in news discourse and the politics of fear
- 3.Corpus-assisted discourse studies
- 4.Methodology
- 4.1Data
- 4.2Analytic methods
- 5.Findings
- 5.1General analysis of key SMCs
- 5.2Analysis of key emotion SMCs
- 5.3Analysis of the lemma fear*
- 6.Conclusion
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Published online: 05 October 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.21019.liu
https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.21019.liu
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