Ming Liu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ming Liu is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1569-2159 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9862
Titles
Language, Politics and Media: The Hong Kong Protests
Edited by Guofeng Wang and Ming Liu
Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 21:1 (2022) vi, 189 pp.
Media Language and Discourse in Cultural China
Edited by Doreen D. Wu, Ming Liu and David C.S. Li
Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 13:1 (2022) v, 165 pp.
2025 Entrepreneur or capitalist? Discursive constructions of a deceased business leader in Chinese digital mourning discourse Journal of Language and Politics: Online-First Articles | Article
This study examines the public mourning discourse surrounding the death of Zong Qinghou, founder of Wahaha Group, on Chinese social media. By incorporating text mining into critical discourse studies, this research provides a corpus-assisted discourse study of competing ways of constructing… read more
2024 Blame-avoiding strategies for a digital scandal: A critical discourse analysis of Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional hearings Pragmatics and Society 15:3, pp. 471–494 | Article
The burgeoning digital economy has also aroused wide public concerns over its improper use of personal data for economic and political profits. This study focuses on the milestone Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal and examines how Mark Zuckerberg succeeded in avoiding public blame during two… read more
2022 Stancetaking in Hong Kong political discourse: A corpus-assisted discourse study Media Language and Discourse in Cultural China, Wu, Doreen D., Ming Liu and David C.S. Li (eds.), pp. 79–98 | Article
This study gives a corpus-assisted discourse study (CADS) of stancetaking in the public speeches of three former Chief Executives. Three large corpora have been built by collecting all the public speeches of the three former Chief Executives. It combines automatic semantic tagging with the… read more
2022 An introduction to the special issue on “Language, Politics and Media: The Hong Kong protests” Language, Politics and Media: The Hong Kong Protests, Wang, Guofeng and Ming Liu (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Introduction
Protests and social movements have become part of Hong Kong’s local politics since the 1970s. However, protests against the proposed extradition bill in 2019‒20 turned out to be the most violent political mass movement in Hong Kong after its return to the People’s Republic of China in 1997. It… read more
2022 The politics of fear in Hong Kong protest representations: A corpus-assisted discourse study Language, Politics and Media: The Hong Kong Protests, Wang, Guofeng and Ming Liu (eds.), pp. 37–59 | Article
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… read more
2022 Introduction to “Media Language and Discourse in Cultural China” Media Language and Discourse in Cultural China, Wu, Doreen D., Ming Liu and David C.S. Li (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Introduction
2017 “Contesting the Cynicism of Neoliberalism”: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study of Press Representations of the Sino-US Currency Dispute Journal of Language and Politics 16:2, pp. 242–263 | Article
This article aims to expose the hegemony of neoliberalism in media discourse through a corpus-assisted discourse study of the representations of the Sino-US currency dispute in two newspapers – China Daily (CD) from China and The New York Times (NYT) from the US. The findings suggest that while… read more