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DESCRIPTION:In 2019\, Hong Kong protesters adopted Bruce Lee’s “Be water\
 , my friend” as a tactical slogan. Lee had drawn on Daoist philosophy of
  water in developing his martial art\, Jeet Kune Do. A previous qualitat
 ive study (Wong\, 2023) mapped how protesters projected the source domai
 n WATER onto new target domains\, but its analysis drew on a limited set
  of sources. This paper revisits these mappings at a larger scale\, aski
 ng how users of r/HongKong applied the metaphor\, which discussion theme
 s it appeared in\, and which mappings the earlier study may have overloo
 ked. First\, collected all posts and comments from r/HongKong published 
 in 2019 and 2020 and filtered them for protest relevance using a validat
 ed dictionary with 561\,471 comments. I then examined 634 candidate inst
 ances of BE WATER\, identified 623 metaphorical uses\, and used BERTopic
  to identify 31 discussion themes in texts where WATER was masked. The m
 etaphor occurred more frequently than expected in discussions of anthems
 \, students and universities\, international responses\, and violence ve
 rsus peaceful protest\, but less frequently in discussions of police bru
 tality. Approximately 70% of uses endorsed or advised the tactic\, while
  others reported on it\, used it to name the movement\, or referred dire
 ctly to Lee. The findings confirm the tactical mapping identified in the
  earlier study and reveal naming as an additional mapping. They also sho
 w how the metaphor was used in debates over violent and peaceful resista
 nce\, and how topic modelling can help reveal the role it played in thes
 e discussions.\n
URL:https://talks.stuts.de/de/stuts80/public/events/1599
SUMMARY:Be Water\, My Friend — But Don't Get Arrested
ORGANIZER:stuts80
LOCATION:stuts80 - R2.006 
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