China’s Greater Bay Area Plan and Hong Kong: How Phraseologies Represent Different Voices in the Media

Zhide Hou

SAGE Open, 2023, vol. 13, issue 2, 21582440231178258

Abstract: This study applies phraseologies to the comparative examination of China’s Greater Bay Area plan between Chinese and Anglo-American English-language press. Findings show that the Chinese texts are concerned in promoting cross-border Greater Bay Area integrated development allied with positive references to the role of Hong Kong, whereas the Anglo-American texts construct the Greater Bay Area plan as a political project and place emphasis on the negative impact on Hong Kong. Also, while the Chinese texts focus on government support to legitimate the plan, the Anglo-American texts underline political threat to Hong Kong as a form of delegitimation. This study explicated the social-political factors behind each particular way of representation by presenting an approach that could yield insights into the new politicalized Hong Kong.

Keywords: Greater Bay Area; Hong Kong; corpus linguistics; phraseology; media discourse (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1177/21582440231178258

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