Critical Discourse Analysis in Historiography

1. Background on Hong Kong and Theoretical Framework
John Flowerdew

Part I. The Discourse of the Outgoing Administration

2. The Discourse of Colonial Withdrawal
John Flowerdew

3. Rhetorical Strategies and Identity Politics in the Discourse of Colonial Withdrawal
John Flowerdew

4. Discourse and Social Change in a Public Meeting
John Flowerdew

Part II. Intercultural Discourses in Hong Kong

5. Face in Intercultural Political Discourse
John Flowerdew

6. Competing Public Discourses in Transitional Hong Kong
John Flowerdew

7. Metaphors in the Discursive Construction of Patriotism: the Case of Hong Kong’s Constitutional Reform Debate
John Flowerdew

Part III. The Discursive Construction of a New Hong Kong Identity

8. Identity Politics and Hong Kong’s Return to Chinese Sovereignty
John Flowerdew

9. Discourse as History: History as Discourse. ‘The Rise of Modern China’ — a History Exhibition in Post-Colonial Hong Kong
John Flowerdew

10. Discriminatory Discourse Directed towards Mainlanders
John Flowerdew

11. Globalisation Discourse: Continuity with the Old
John Flowerdew

12. The Discursive Construction of a World Class City
John Flowerdew

13. Conclusion
John Flowerdew

Keywords: Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Asian History, Sociolinguistics, Historiography and Method, Political Science, History of China