Janet Ho Nga Man
List of John Benjamins publications in which Janet Ho Nga Man is involved.
Journal
ISSN 2210-4070 | E‑ISSN 2210‑4097
Articles
2026 Asymmetric discursive struggle: The discursive representation and contestation of Africanness and Blackness in Chinese cyberspace Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict: Online-First Articles | Article
Focusing on the 2020 case of Okonkwonwoye (a Nigerian man) who attacked Wang (a Chinese nurse), this study analysed over 37,000 posts and comments from Weibo (a popular Chinese microblogging platform) to explore the representation and contestation of Africanness and Blackness in Chinese… read more
2023 Metaphors, powerlessness and online aggression: How Wuhan lockdown escapees were dehumanised during the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 11:1, pp. 77–100 | Article
A lockdown was imposed in Wuhan, China, the alleged epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak, on 23 January 2020. Rattled by the short notice and severity of the restrictions, many grabbed the last opportunity to escape, an act widely criticised on Weibo, China’s popular microblogging site. This study… read more
2022 Media portrayals of the Hong Kong Occupy Central Movement’s social actors: Multilevel and critical discourse analysis Language, Politics and Media: The Hong Kong Protests, Wang, Guofeng and Ming Liu (eds.), pp. 81–116 | Article
We investigated how two English-language newspapers – Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post (SCMP) and the mainland China Daily (CD) – portrayed key social actors (police, students, protesters, and governments) during the Occupy Central/Yellow Umbrella movement. We examined emotional valence,… read more