Stancetaking in Hong Kong political discourse: A corpus-assisted discourse study

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Abstract

This study gives a corpus-assisted discourse study (CADS) of stancetaking in the public speeches of three former Chief Executives. Three large corpora have been built by collecting all the public speeches of the three former Chief Executives. It combines automatic semantic tagging with the tripartite analysis of stancetaking in terms of evaluation, positioning and (dis)alignment. The findings not only reveal their preferential ways of stancetaking but also the changing socio-political contexts behind their particular ways of stancetaking. It is argued that a combination of the methods and theories in critical discourse analysis, stancetaking, and corpus linguistics can generate more illuminating findings concerning stancetaking in political discourse.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)79-98
Number of pages20
JournalChinese Language and Discourse
Volume13
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 29 Mar 2022

Keywords

  • Chief Executive
  • Hong Kong
  • Stancetaking
  • corpus-assisted discourse study (CADS)
  • critical discourse analysis
  • political discourse
  • public speeches

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Visual Arts and Performing Arts
  • Linguistics and Language

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