HUMANITARIAN RESEARCHES

Journal of fundamental and applied researches

HONGKONG IMAGE METAPHORIZIATION IN MAINLAND CHINA AND UNITED KINGDOM DURING THE 2019 PROTESTS

2020. №4, pp. 97-104

Lyubimova Viktoria A. - Astrakhan State University, li_xiaowei@mail.ru

The article explores the image of Hong Kong in the media during the 2019 protests, which attracted worldwide attention. The protests, in which millions of Hong Kongers took part, could not fail to attract the attention of the press. For weeks, Hong Kong has been on the front pages of newspapers around the world, as well as on TV screens. The number of publications about the city in both the UK and mainland China has nearly doubled this year. The coverage of these events in the press of mainland China and Great Britain took place from different angles. Information describing the facts of reality related to Hong Kong is presented in the media of mainland China and Great Britain in a certain way, according to a certain scheme. The media image of Hong Kong is a collective work, the nature and content of which is determined by the political order and ideological attitudes of the publishing houses of the two countries. Metaphor used in publications as a complex psycholinguistic device that influences the consciousness of the audience; being a model of inferential knowledge, a model for putting forward hypotheses, it is designed to create a concrete stable image of Hong Kong in the mass consciousness.

Key words: Hong Kong, mainland China, Great Britain, protests, media, metaphor, image, mass consciousness

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