Wee Boon Wong
Biographic Data
| ID | 6601336 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wee Boon Wong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wee Boon |
| FAMILY NAME | Wong |
| SIGNATURE | WONG W B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Singapore University of Social Sciences |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Discursive construction of legitimation and delegitimation
Representation of social actors in The Straits Times and The Independent Singapore
Section 377A was a decades-old law introduced in Singapore in 1938, which had made sexual intimacy between gay men, even when consensual, punishable by a maximum sentence of two years in prison. In Aug 2022, in what many considered as a historic moment in Singapore, the Prime Minister announced its repeal. Following the announcement, several related news articles were published by the news outlets The Straits Times and The Independent Singapore. …
Synthetic personalization of Barack Obama at the 2008 US Democratic National Convention
This article sets out to investigate how represented social actors can be related multimodally to addressees in political contexts that are staged specially for public and media consumption. Drawing on Van Leeuwen’s theoretical assumption in Discourse and Practice: New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis (2008) on the different kinds of ‘symbolic’ relations that can be constructed between represented social actors and viewers, and Lemke’s (1998…
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Synthetic personalization of Barack Obama at the 2008 US Democratic National Convention
This article sets out to investigate how represented social actors can be related multimodally to addressees in political contexts that are staged specially for public and media consumption. Drawing on Van Leeuwen’s theoretical assumption in Discourse and Practice: New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis (2008) on the different kinds of ‘symbolic’ relations that can be constructed between represented social actors and viewers, and Lemke’s (1998…
Representation of social actors in The Straits Times and The Independent Singapore
Section 377A was a decades-old law introduced in Singapore in 1938, which had made sexual intimacy between gay men, even when consensual, punishable by a maximum sentence of two years in prison. In Aug 2022, in what many considered as a historic moment in Singapore, the Prime Minister announced its repeal. Following the announcement, several related news articles were published by the news outlets The Straits Times and The Independent Singapore. …
Discursive construction of legitimation and delegitimation
Critical discourse analysis (3 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Asian Studies and History (2 works) · Discourse analysis (2 works) · Law (2 works)