doi: 10.18178/IJLLL.2024.10.1.474
Governmental Attitudes towards the Development of HK (1984–2022): A Corpus-Based Discourse Study
Chai Ying
- College of Foreign Language, Qufu Normal University, China
- Manuscript received August 11, 2023
- revised September 24, 2023
- accepted November 2, 2023
- published January 10, 2024
Abstract
This study aims to provide an account of the governmental attitudes of former Hong Kong Governors and the Hong Kong (HKSAR) Chief Executives. Two large corpora have been built to explore the keyword-in-context data and do a linguistic analysis of them. It is argued that combining the methods and theories in critical discourse analysis, appraisal theory, and semantic prosody can generate more illuminating findings concerning attitudes in political discourse.
Keywords
- critical discourse analysis
- appraisal theory
- Semantic prosody
- policy addresses
- Hong Kong
How to Cite
Chai Ying, "Governmental Attitudes towards the Development of HK (1984–2022): A Corpus-Based Discourse Study," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 6-10, 2024. https://doi.org/10.18178/IJLLL.2024.10.1.474
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