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The national security law for Hong Kong: a corpus-driven comparative study of media representations between China’s and Anglo-American English-language press

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  • Zhide Hou

    (Jinan University)

  • Qianni Peng

    (Jinan University)

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The study conducts a comparative phraseological analysis of media representations associated with the National Security Law for Hong Kong between China’s and Anglo-American English-language press. Based on a corpus-driven methodology, four framing functions, i.e., politics and law, protests and crime, action and future, and evaluation are identified to suggest how the legislation is addressed and understood in different press. The findings demonstrate that the Chinese press prefers to solely highlight the law’s potential benefits and its favorable results, whereas the Anglo-American press is inclined to construct the law as a weapon deployed by China to threaten Hong Kong’s legal system and undermine its democratic autonomy. The study discusses the newly politicalized Hong Kong in different socio-political practices and geopolitical tensions between China and the West.

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  • Zhide Hou & Qianni Peng, 2023. "The national security law for Hong Kong: a corpus-driven comparative study of media representations between China’s and Anglo-American English-language press," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 10(1), pages 1-13, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palcom:v:10:y:2023:i:1:d:10.1057_s41599-023-01699-7
    DOI: 10.1057/s41599-023-01699-7
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    1. Andrew Silver, 2020. "Hong Kong’s contentious national security law concerns some academics," Nature, Nature, vol. 582(7812), pages 321-322, June.
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    1. Lingli Yu & Ling Yang, 2024. "News media in crisis: a sentiment and emotion analysis of US news articles on unemployment in the COVID-19 pandemic," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 11(1), pages 1-9, December.

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