TY - JOUR
T1 - “We shall not flag or fail, we shall go on to the end”
T2 - Hashtag activism in Hong Kong protests
AU - Bhatia, Aditi
AU - Ross, Andrew
N1 - Funding Information:
This paper was funded by the Special Round of the Public Policy Research Funding Scheme by Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office, HKSAR Government, for the project titled ‘Hash-tag Activism in Hong Kong Protests’, Project Number: SR2020.A6.011
Publisher Copyright:
© John Benjamins Publishing Company.
PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - Focusing on the anti-extradition bill protests in Hong Kong, this article presents an analysis of Twitter posts adopting the hashtags #antiELAB, #NoChinaExtradition and #HongKongProtests. The analysis explores the public narrative among the collective identity of Hongkongers opposing the extradition bill as events unfolded during mid-2019 in Hong Kong. To do so, we adopt Bhatia’s (2015) multi-perspective framework for the Discourse of Illusion, which takes a three-prong approach to the study of argument construction and establishing legitimacy. Specifically, through the interrelated components of (1) historicity, (2) linguistic and semiotic action, and(3) social impact, the dimensions of the hashtag narrative that emerged onTwitter were explored.
AB - Focusing on the anti-extradition bill protests in Hong Kong, this article presents an analysis of Twitter posts adopting the hashtags #antiELAB, #NoChinaExtradition and #HongKongProtests. The analysis explores the public narrative among the collective identity of Hongkongers opposing the extradition bill as events unfolded during mid-2019 in Hong Kong. To do so, we adopt Bhatia’s (2015) multi-perspective framework for the Discourse of Illusion, which takes a three-prong approach to the study of argument construction and establishing legitimacy. Specifically, through the interrelated components of (1) historicity, (2) linguistic and semiotic action, and(3) social impact, the dimensions of the hashtag narrative that emerged onTwitter were explored.
KW - Discourse of illusion
KW - Hashtag activism
KW - Hong Kong protests
KW - Social media discourse
KW - Twitter
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85123465261&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1075/jlp.21020.bha
DO - 10.1075/jlp.21020.bha
M3 - Article
SN - 1569-2159
VL - 21
SP - 117
EP - 142
JO - Journal of Language and Politics
JF - Journal of Language and Politics
IS - 1
ER -