Janet Ho

orcid.org/0000-0002-2498-0256

List of John Benjamins publications for which Janet Ho plays a role.

Journal

Metaphor and the Social World (MSW)

Edited by Aletta G. Dorst, Susan Nacey and Dennis Tay

ISSN 2210-4070 | E-ISSN 2210-4097

Articles

Ho, Janet 2023 Metaphors, powerlessness and online aggression: How Wuhan lockdown escapees were dehumanised during the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 11:1, pp. 77–100 | Article

A lockdown was imposed in Wuhan, China, the alleged epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak, on 23 January 2020. Rattled by the short notice and severity of the restrictions, many grabbed the last opportunity to escape, an act widely criticised on Weibo, China’s popular microblogging site. This study… read more

Ho, Janet and Ming Ming Chiu 2022 Media portrayals of the Hong Kong Occupy Central Movement’s social actors: Multilevel and critical discourse analysis Language, Politics and Media: The Hong Kong Protests, Wang, Guofeng and Ming Liu (eds.), pp. 81–116 | Article

We investigated how two English-language newspapers – Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post (SCMP) and the mainland China Daily (CD) – portrayed key social actors (police, students, protesters, and governments) during the Occupy Central/Yellow Umbrella movement. We examined emotional valence,… read more