The politics of fear in Hong Kong protest representations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liu Ming ◽  
Jingxue Ma
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Politics Of Fear ◽  
Traditional Patterns ◽  
Distinct Strategy

Abstract 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.

scholarly journals Corrigendum

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 465-465
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Spelling Error ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Management Communication ◽  
Intellectual Traditions ◽  
Agency Management

Brummans, B. H. J. M. (2015). Forum introduction: Organizational communication and the question of agency. Management Communication Quarterly, 29(3), 458-462. DOI: 10.1177/0893318915584823 The author regrets that there is a spelling error in the second paragraph of page 458 of this forum introduction. Line 7 should read as follows (the change is shown in bold): Drawing on actor-network theory as well as Bakhtinian dialogism, among other intellectual traditions, Cooren looks at agency through a ventriloquial lens to understand how language and action are always inhabited by passions and principles that make themselves heard and felt in interactions and thus shape our organizing. Also, on page 459, third paragraph, line 18 should read: And if the same newspaper states, “The Chinese Government said today . . . “ or “Google said . . .,” we usually glance over the fact that the Chinese Government or Google cannot speak for themselves without their spokespersons—or the fact that the New York Times cannot state anything without journalists writing on its behalf (see also McPhee’s essay).

The Other China

Worldview ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 19 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 25-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam London ◽  
Ivan D. London
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The Other ◽  
Chinese Politics

On April 7, 1976, a New York Times editorial expressed an evidently startled reaction to recent rioting in Peking, for “China had seemed to be so orderly, so completely controlled in recent years….” The same day's mail brought to our address the February, 1976, issue of Letters from Asia, published in Hong Kong. The “letter” on China noted widespread strikes and disorders in 1974 and disruptive “factionalism” at all Party levels. The key line was: “…1975 was a highly agitated year in Chinese politics.”Having been broken in the traces of contemporary sinology, we are now accustomed to such moments of schizophrenia. Indeed, in our preceding two articles we have ourselves begun to render, in seeming schizoid fashion, a darkly shaded image of China in opposition to the prevailing evenly sunlit one.

State-press relationship revisited: A comparison of foreign policy coverage on the Hong Kong 1997 issue by three newspapers

1994 ◽  
Vol 53 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 135-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophia Chan
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Dynamic Approach ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
People’S Daily ◽  
People's Daily ◽  
The Times

Research in media diplomacy often concluded that media took a pro-government stance in covering foreign affairs. This study tested this finding by content analysing the coverage of the Hong Kong 1997 issue by the New York Times, the Times of Britain and the People's Daily of China. The data indicated that the two western newspapers departed significantly from their governments’ respective positions on the issue, while the People's Daily has followed Beijing's stance on the issue all along. The result challenged the viewpoint of ‘media as governments’ cheerleaders’. A more dynamic approach to media diplomacy research is suggested.

Inhaltsanalyse elektronisch gespeicherter Massendaten der internationalen Presse

2003 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 98-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Galliker ◽  
Jan Herman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times

Zusammenfassung. Am Beispiel der Repräsentation von Mann und Frau in der Times und in der New York Times wird ein inhaltsanalytisches Verfahren vorgestellt, das sich besonders für die Untersuchung elektronisch gespeicherter Printmedien eignet. Unter Co-Occurrence-Analyse wird die systematische Untersuchung verbaler Kombinationen pro Zähleinheit verstanden. Diskutiert wird das Problem der Auswahl der bei der Auswertung und Darstellung der Ergebnisse berücksichtigten semantischen Einheiten.

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