Rodney H. Jones

List of John Benjamins publications in which Rodney H. Jones is involved.

Journal

Linguistic Landscape

An international journal

Edited by Robert Blackwood and Kellie Gonçalves

ISSN 2214-9953 | E‑ISSN 2214‑9961

Title

Occupy Hong Kong: Historicizing Protest

Edited by John Flowerdew and Rodney H. Jones

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 15:5 (2016) vi, 147 pp.

Jones, Rodney H. 2022 Chapter 3. Is my mobile phone listening to me? Conspiratorial thinking, digital literacies, and everyday encounters with surveillance Conspiracy Theory Discourses, Demata, Massimiliano, Virginia Zorzi and Angela Zottola (eds.), pp. 49–70 | Chapter

Despite denials from tech executives, fact-checks from journalists and explanations from security experts, the “conspiracy theory” that internet companies listen to people’s conversations via the microphones in their mobile phones persists. This paper explores the ways people make sense of their… read more

Jones, Rodney H. and Dennis Chau 2022 Metalinguistic tactics in the Hong Kong protest movement Language, Politics and Media: The Hong Kong Protests, Wang, Guofeng and Ming Liu (eds.), pp. 143–172 | Article

This paper explores the metalinguistic tactics used by Hong Kong protesters in 2014 and 2019 and how they reflected and exploited a range of dominant ideologies about language in the city. These tactics are considered both in terms of their rhetorical utility in the “message war” between… read more

Jones, Rodney H. 2017 Surveillant landscapes Linguistic Landscape 3:2, pp. 149–186 | Article

Most linguistic landscape research to date has focused on how people read and write language in the material world. Much less attention has been paid to the way linguistic landscapes sometimes read and write their inhabitants through technologies like CCTV cameras, intruder alarms, and other… read more

Flowerdew, John and Rodney H. Jones 2016 Occupy Hong Kong: Historicizing Protest Occupy Hong Kong: Historicizing Protest, Flowerdew, John and Rodney H. Jones (eds.), pp. 519–526 | Article

Jones, Rodney H. and Neville Chi Hang Li 2016 Evidentiary video and “Professional Vision” in the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement Occupy Hong Kong: Historicizing Protest, Flowerdew, John and Rodney H. Jones (eds.), pp. 567–588 | Article

The video documentation of police violence against citizens, and the circulation of these videos over mainstream and social media, has played an important part in many contemporary social movements, from the Black Lives Matter Movement in the U.S. to the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong. Such… read more