Rodney H. Jones
List of John Benjamins publications for which Rodney H. Jones plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 2214-9953 | E-ISSN 2214-9961
Title
Occupy Hong Kong: Historicizing Protest
Edited by John Flowerdew and Rodney H. Jones
Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 15:5 (2016) vi, 147 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Articles
2022. Chapter 3. Is my mobile phone listening to me? Conspiratorial thinking, digital literacies, and everyday encounters with surveillance. Conspiracy Theory Discourses, Demata, Massimiliano, Virginia Zorzi and Angela Zottola (eds.), pp. 49–70
Despite denials from tech executives, fact-checks from journalists and explanations from security experts, the “conspiracy theory” that internet companies listen to people’s conversations via the microphones in their mobile phones persists. This paper explores the ways people make sense of their… read more | Chapter
2022. Metalinguistic tactics in the Hong Kong protest movement. Language, Politics and Media: The Hong Kong Protests, Wang, Guofeng and Ming Liu (eds.), pp. 143–172
This paper explores the metalinguistic tactics used by Hong Kong protesters in 2014 and 2019 and how they reflected and exploited a range of dominant ideologies about language in the city. These tactics are considered both in terms of their rhetorical utility in the “message war” between protesters… read more | Article
2017. Surveillant landscapes. Linguistic Landscape 3:2, pp. 149–186
Most linguistic landscape research to date has focused on how people read and write language in the material world. Much less attention has been paid to the way linguistic landscapes sometimes read and write their inhabitants through technologies like CCTV cameras, intruder alarms, and other… read more | Article
2016. Occupy Hong Kong: Historicizing Protest. Occupy Hong Kong: Historicizing Protest, Flowerdew, John and Rodney H. Jones (eds.), pp. 519–526
Article
2016. Evidentiary video and “Professional Vision” in the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement. Occupy Hong Kong: Historicizing Protest, Flowerdew, John and Rodney H. Jones (eds.), pp. 567–588
The video documentation of police violence against citizens, and the circulation of these videos over mainstream and social media, has played an important part in many contemporary social movements, from the Black Lives Matter Movement in the U.S. to the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong. Such videos… read more | Article