Guofeng Wang
List of John Benjamins publications for which Guofeng Wang plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 1569-2159 | E-ISSN 1569-9862
Title
Language, Politics and Media: The Hong Kong Protests
Edited by Guofeng Wang and Ming Liu
Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 21:1 (2022) vi, 189 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Articles
2023 A topic modeling-assisted diachronic study of “One Country, Two Systems” represented in Anglo-American newspapers Journal of Language and Politics 22:6, pp. 869–893 | Article
One Country, Two Systems (1C2S) is a framework proposed by China to achieve national unification of territories with different economic and socio-political systems. This study explores the discursive construction of 1C2S in two representative Anglo-American newspapers from January 1984 through… read more
2022 An introduction to the special issue on “Language, Politics and Media: The Hong Kong protests” Language, Politics and Media: The Hong Kong Protests, Wang, Guofeng and Ming Liu (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Introduction
Protests and social movements have become part of Hong Kong’s local politics since the 1970s. However, protests against the proposed extradition bill in 2019‒20 turned out to be the most violent political mass movement in Hong Kong after its return to the People’s Republic of China in 1997. It… read more
2022 Britain as a protector, a mediator or an onlooker? Examining the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests in British newspapers Language, Politics and Media: The Hong Kong Protests, Wang, Guofeng and Ming Liu (eds.), pp. 17–36 | Article
Since Hong Kong’s handover to China, British newspapers still play an active role in constructing Britain’s connections with its former colony. This study elaborates a schema for protests to help better understand protests in general. Based on this schema, the study examined representations of… read more