ISBN:
9781793630858
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (371 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Eagleton, Jennifer Discursive change in Hong Kong
DDC:
306.2095125
Keywords:
Political culture-China-Hong Kong
;
Politischer Wandel
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Protestbewegung
;
Einflussgröße
;
Politik
;
Soziales Feld
;
Geschichte
;
Electronic books
;
Hongkong
;
China
Abstract:
Discursive Change in Hong Kong is a comprehensive interdisciplinary study of socio-political and discursive change in Hong Kong since 1997. It provides a stimulating, politically well informed, and comprehensive "insider" account of media and official discourse on democracy and political change as part of "One Country, Two Systems.".
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- A Word on Primary and Secondary Sources Used in This Book -- Basic Law and Related Texts -- Official Hong Kong Government Documents -- Political Party Texts -- News Texts -- A Note about Translation and Romanization of Names -- Chapter 1: A Transition: Impact of the Past on the Discourse of Hong Kong's Political Future -- Introduction -- The Major Approach of This Book -- Layout of the Book -- A Political Transition -- Things to Consider in Analyzing Hong Kong's Political Discourse -- Hong Kong, Itself a Metaphor -- Cities and the Sky 3 -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Hong Kong's "Guiding Light": The Basic Law as Discursive Frame -- The Handover Preliminaries -- The Negotiation Strategy and Its Linguistic Realization -- Summary -- The Legalization Stage of the One Country, Two Systems: The Basic Law -- Hong Kong's Democratic Promise Continued -- Interpreting Hong Kong's Democratic Promise -- Pro-Beijing/Pro-Establishments' View of the Basic Law -- The Basic Law as Seen Metalinguistically and Metaphorically -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Participants in the Discourse: The Political Divide -- Hong Kong's Political Habitus and the Political Field -- The Two "Camps" and Their Categorization -- Overall Category Pairs of Hong Kong's Political Parties -- Differences between Traditional Pan-democratic Parties and Localist Groups -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Metaphor as Narrative: Mapping the First Decade of Political Change -- Metaphor, Ideology, and Cultural Context -- Methodology -- Discourse-Length Metaphor Chains -- Event-Metaphor Chains -- Meta-Metaphors of Universal Suffrage and Its Attainment -- Linking Metaphor and Situation: Discourse Meta-Themes -- Interaction of the Meta-Metaphors and Discourse Meta-Themes: A Conclusion -- Notes.
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