Discourse and social change in contemporary Hong
Kong
期刊名称： Language in Society
作者： John Flowerdew
年份： 1996年
期号： 第4期
关键词： Discourse analysis;Power and language;Social
change;Indexicals;Involvement;Manipulative discourse;Mise en abyme;Order of
discourse;Political discourse;Turn-taking
摘要：This article documents discursive and social change currently taking place
in contemporary Hong Kong during the transitional period leading up to the change of sovereignty from Britain to China. It does so by means of a detailed analysis of a political meeting, involving the British Hong Kong governor, Chris Patten, and members of the Hong Kong public. The meeting took place in October, 1992, a day after Patten introduced proposals to widen the democratic franchise. Patten used the meeting, the first time a Hong Kong governor had made himself openly accountable to the public at large, to demonstrate the sort of democratic discourse for which the reform proposals were designed to create a framework.
The analysis focuses on two main ways Patten highlighted the democratic nature of the discourse: the use ofmise en abyme, or a "play
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discourse