TY - JOUR
T1 - ‘Same, same but different’
T2 - representations of Chinese mainland and Hong Kong people in the press in post-1997 Hong Kong
AU - Lin, Yuting
AU - Chen, Meilin
AU - Flowerdew, John
N1 - Publisher copyright:
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PY - 2022/7/4
Y1 - 2022/7/4
N2 - After Hong Kong’s return to Chinese Sovereignty in 1997, the terms ‘mainlander’ and ‘Hongkonger’ have been widely used by English-language media in Hong Kong to differentiate between people from the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong. This study examines representations of Chinese mainlanders and Hongkongers in a 17.4-million-token corpus containing 30,279 articles published between 1998 and 2019 by the South China Morning Post, a leading English-language newspaper in Hong Kong. By comparing the collocational behaviour of the noun lemmas mainlander and Hongkonger, the study identifies the topoi, or stereotypical characterizations, associated with the two groups. The analysis demonstrates the way in which the ‘othering’ of or sometimes discrimination against mainland migrants/visitors has served as part of the process through which the distinctive ‘Hongkongers’ identity’ is pronounced after the 1997-handover in Hong Kong’s English language newspaper of record.
AB - After Hong Kong’s return to Chinese Sovereignty in 1997, the terms ‘mainlander’ and ‘Hongkonger’ have been widely used by English-language media in Hong Kong to differentiate between people from the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong. This study examines representations of Chinese mainlanders and Hongkongers in a 17.4-million-token corpus containing 30,279 articles published between 1998 and 2019 by the South China Morning Post, a leading English-language newspaper in Hong Kong. By comparing the collocational behaviour of the noun lemmas mainlander and Hongkonger, the study identifies the topoi, or stereotypical characterizations, associated with the two groups. The analysis demonstrates the way in which the ‘othering’ of or sometimes discrimination against mainland migrants/visitors has served as part of the process through which the distinctive ‘Hongkongers’ identity’ is pronounced after the 1997-handover in Hong Kong’s English language newspaper of record.
KW - Chinese discourse
KW - Chinese identity
KW - discriminative discourse
KW - Hong Kong discourse
KW - Hong Kong identity
KW - topoi
KW - topos
UR - https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/rcds/2022/00000019/00000004/art00002
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85105338498&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/17405904.2021.1905015
DO - 10.1080/17405904.2021.1905015
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85105338498
SN - 1740-5904
VL - 19
SP - 364
EP - 383
JO - Critical Discourse Studies
JF - Critical Discourse Studies
IS - 4
ER -