CCGL9011 Tutorial 3 critical thinking question
- Find two reports of Mongkok incident and analyze the words in the title
The first news report obtained is from Reuters, headlined “Hong Kong riot police fire warning shots in bloody street clashes”. Emotional words include “riot”, “bloody” and “clashes”. When evaluating the words, “riot” means instability, “bloody” means cruelty and “clashes” means a violent confrontation. All three words are negative, and they are all strong words and active in nature. These emotional words may impose the feeling of violence to readers.
The second news report obtained is from HK Economic Journal, titled “Mong Kok unrest another wake-up call for Leung”. Emotional words include “unrest”. When evaluating the words, “unrest” means feeling of disturbance, which sounds neutral and it is a weaker word, but also active in nature. This emotional words impose less violent feeling to readers.
