Metalinguistic tactics in the Hong Kong protest movement

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ID6084401
AuthorsRodney H Jones (0000-0002-9426-727X), Dennis Chau (0000-0001-8618-8689)
Year2022
Volume21
Issue1
Pages143-172
Publication date2022-01-11
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Language and Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1569-2159 • E-ISSN: 1569-9862
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/jlp.21017.jon
OpenAlexW3185608105
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited56

This paper explores the metalinguistic tactics used by Hong Kong protesters in 2014 and 2019 and how they reflected and exploited a range of dominant ideologies about language in the city. These tactics are considered both in terms of their rhetorical utility in the “message war” between protesters and authorities, and their significance in the broader sociolinguistic context of Hong Kong. The analysis reveals how such tactics entailed both opportunities and risks, allowing protesters to create shareable discursive artifacts that spread quickly over social media and to promote in-group solidarity and distrust of their political opponents, but also limiting their ability to broaden the appeal of their messages to certain segments of the population and implicating them in upholding language ideologies that promote exclusion and marginalization

Appeal · Context (archaeology · Distrust · Ideology · Linguistics · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Solidarity · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · History · Law

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