Yuxi Wu. Media Representations of Macau’s Gaming Industry in Greater China: A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis. Singapore: Springer Nature, 2023. 154 pp. ISBN 9789811977237 (hardback)

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Yang Han | University of Shanghai for Science and Technology

Tianyu Bai | University of Shanghai for Science and Technology

Media Representations of Macau’s Gaming Industry in Greater China, written by Yuxi Wu, adopts a corpus-based critical discourse analysis method to compare newspaper media representations of Macau’s gaming industry in 2014 in Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, and Macau, the three regions of China with different historical backgrounds, economic conditions, political systems, and social norms. The topical preferences, attitudinal differences and ideological stances of English-language newspapers published in these three regions are revealed in this research.

Keywords: media representations, corpus, critical discourse analysis, Macau’s gaming industry

Published online: 25 September 2023

https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.23101.han

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Yuxi Wu. Media Representations of Macau’s Gaming Industry in Greater China: A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis. Singapore: Springer Nature, 2023. 154 pp. ISBN 9789811977237 (hardback)

Yuxi Wu. Media Representations of Macau’s Gaming Industry in Greater China: A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis. Singapore: Springer Nature, 2023. 154 pp. ISBN 9789811977237 (hardback)