Border Crossing

Performance of Language: A Comparative Linguistic Study of News About China and Italy During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Canadian News Program

“…In the stories on China, all uses of community were for the coverage about the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HK SAR). Hong Kong's colonial past and its special economic status has created for itself "a precarious vacuum" for identity syncretism between British colonial influence, the more recent Americanization and Chinese heritage/culture (Yau, 1994). The recent peaceful social-political movements that were covered by media are being reduced to a binary ideology and values between the western influenced Hong Kong and China (Cohen, 2019;Dere, 2020).…”

“…China in 1997, it has been in a struggle, facing its ontological identity (Lowe & Tsang, 2017) and the anxiety of being governed by a different system, from the Colonial Britain to the socialist mainland China despite that Hong Kong would be given a high degree of autonomy (Yau, 1994). Visible colonial repression by the British has been transitioned into a more subtle cultural assimilation toward the end of the colonial era in Hong Kong especially after British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's visit to Beijing in 1982 (Yau, 1994;Dere, 2020).…”

“…China in 1997, it has been in a struggle, facing its ontological identity (Lowe & Tsang, 2017) and the anxiety of being governed by a different system, from the Colonial Britain to the socialist mainland China despite that Hong Kong would be given a high degree of autonomy (Yau, 1994). Visible colonial repression by the British has been transitioned into a more subtle cultural assimilation toward the end of the colonial era in Hong Kong especially after British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's visit to Beijing in 1982 (Yau, 1994;Dere, 2020). The different "historical consciousness" that separates Hong Kongers and the Mainlanders (Lowe & Tsang, 2017) together with the social reform movements that started as peaceful social-political demands (Flowerdew, 2017) have been weaponized and labelled as regime change by foreign interferences (including foreign media establishments), and thus exacerbates the division between Hong Kong and mainland China (Cohen, 2019;Dere, 2020;Noh, 2019).…”

Performance of Language: A Comparative Linguistic Study of News About China and Italy During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Canadian News Program

“…In the stories on China, all uses of community were for the coverage about the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HK SAR). Hong Kong's colonial past and its special economic status has created for itself "a precarious vacuum" for identity syncretism between British colonial influence, the more recent Americanization and Chinese heritage/culture (Yau, 1994). The recent peaceful social-political movements that were covered by media are being reduced to a binary ideology and values between the western influenced Hong Kong and China (Cohen, 2019;Dere, 2020).…”

“…China in 1997, it has been in a struggle, facing its ontological identity (Lowe & Tsang, 2017) and the anxiety of being governed by a different system, from the Colonial Britain to the socialist mainland China despite that Hong Kong would be given a high degree of autonomy (Yau, 1994). Visible colonial repression by the British has been transitioned into a more subtle cultural assimilation toward the end of the colonial era in Hong Kong especially after British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's visit to Beijing in 1982 (Yau, 1994;Dere, 2020).…”