A Comparative Analysis of the Engagement Resources of Chinese and American Newspapers on Hong Kong National Security Law

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10.2991/assehr.k.210519.131How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Hong Kong National Security Law, Chinese and American newspapers, engagement resources, contrast, ideology

Abstract

This paper compares the differences of engagement resources in the news on Hong Kong National Security Law between People’s Daily and The Washington Times with the help of the Engagement System of Appraisal Theory, and analyzes the causes of the differences. The results show that: both newspapers tend to use monogloss sentences and trigger heterogloss dialogues from respective positions of supporting their own countries, People’s Daily has higher proportion of dialogic contraction resources, while The Washington Times has higher proportion of heterogloss resources and dialogic expansion resources; The differences of ideology between China and the US are the reasons for the above differences. This study can promote China’s localization research of the Engagement System of Appraisal Theory, and contribute to constructing a discourse system for safeguarding China’s sovereignty.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Peng Zhuo
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/05/20
TI  - A Comparative Analysis of the Engagement Resources of Chinese and American Newspapers on Hong Kong National Security Law
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 665
EP  - 668
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210519.131
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210519.131
ID  - Zhuo2021
ER  -