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Publication details [#11944]
Flowerdew, John. 1997. Competing Public Discourses in Transitional Hong Kong. Journal of Pragmatics 28 (4) : 533–553. 21 pp. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
In an attempt to illustrate the political situation in Hong Kong, two competing discourses characteristic of those in favor of Hong Kong autonomy (confrontational discourse) and of those supporting the pro-China camp (consensus-oriented discourse) are presented.