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Article published In: Occupy Hong Kong: Historicizing Protest
Edited by John Flowerdew and Rodney H. Jones
[Journal of Language and Politics 15:5] 2016
► pp. 527–548

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A historiographical approach to Hong Kong Occupy

Focus on a critical moment

 | City University of Hong Kong
Published online: 6 December 2016
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https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.15.5.02flo
Abstract
This article is conceptualised within the framework of a historiographical approach to critical discourse analysis (. 2012. Critical Discourse Analysis in Historiography: The Case of Hong Kong’s Evolving Political Identity. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar). It focusses on a critical moment in Hong Kong’s socio-political development, the Occupy movement, and a specific language event, an interview on a local Hong Kong English-language television programme discussing the rationale for the movement. A micro-analysis of the interaction focusses on important features of the historical context, intertextual links, the backgrounds and the roles of the participants, and the argumentations strategies used by them. The article shows how a focus on a critical moment in discourse can shed light on the bigger socio-political picture and how arguments regarding particular topics may reflect larger ideological struggles, the political agendas of different groups, and the ways arguments are constructed dialogically in response not only to the words of interlocutors, but also in relation to prior (and future) discourses.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Method
    • 2.1Research questions
  • 3.Analysis
    • 3.1What features of the historical context are significant for the meanings in the text?
    • 3.2What are the backgrounds and the roles of the participants in the discourse?
      • 3.2.1Michael Chugani
      • 3.2.2Benny Tai Yiu-ting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Tai
      • 3.2.3Priscilla Leung Mei-fun http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priscilla_Leung
    • 3.3What are the specific links to the past – intertextuality?
    • 3.4What are the argumentation strategies used by the two protagonists
  • 4.Discussion and conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
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