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Question Answered step-by-step Attribution is a basic notion for the organization of interaction… Attribution is a basic notion for the organization of interaction in texts. It is also called manifest intertextuality. Compare two texts below in terms of attribution (e.g. reporting expressions, functions, citation, evidentiality, reported speech, reporting verbs, speech presentation and voices.) TEXT 1 (news report) [1] Chinese medicine pills Jinhua Qinggan can greatly reduce elderly Covid patients’ risk of developing serious infection and death and can also be taken as a preventive medicine, a medical alliance has said.[2] Hong Kong Alliance of Integrated Medicine Against Covid yesterday shared findings about the use of Jinhua Qinggan pills – one of three traditional Chinese medicines alongside Lianhua Qingwen capsules and Huoxiang Zhengqi tablets used to treat Covid patients in the mainland – in a care home for the elderly.[3] The pills were given to 75 residents when they were healthy, among whom 69 were eventually infected with Covid but none developed serious illness.[4] However, the group did not say whether the 69 elderly patients had taken other medication together with the Jinhua Qinggan pills.[5] But the alliance said three residents from the same care home who had not taken the pills subsequently contracted Covid and were all admitted to hospital due to serious symptoms. Two of them eventually passed away.[6] Hong Kong Registered Chinese Medicine Practitioners Association chairman Chan Wing-kwong said: “The most common symptoms for patients contracting Omicron are fever, respiratory discomfort like coughs and sore throat as well as digestive issues, which can be alleviated by ingredients in Jinhua.[7] “The pills can also boost elderly people’s immunity and block the virus from entering the lungs,” he said. [8] Not only can the pills be used as treatment in the early stages after the onset of symptoms, they can also be used to prevent infection spread to close contacts and high-risk people.[9] Elderly Commission chairman Lam Ching-choi said dozens of Covid patients from care homes staying at the temporary care center in Kai Tak had a good response to the hybrid treatment of Chinese and western medicine.[10] “At the center, Chinese and western medicine practitioners attend patients together. TCM practitioners can utilize their massage techniques to supplement the lack of occupational and physiotherapists in these centers.”[11] That came as Chief Executive Carrie Lam – after consulting TCM experts from the mainland – said that Hong Kong will strive to utilize a hybrid treatment of Chinese and western medicine.[12] Secretary for Food and Health Sophia Chan said both Chinese and western medicine practitioners have been stationed in the North Lantau Hospital Infection Control Centre and Asia-World Expo.[13] So far, some 300 patients have received treatment by the joint team and over 9.3 million packs of TCM have been distributed.  TEXT 2(editorial)Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor may have raised eyebrows when she conceded that it was an indisputable fact that Hong Kong was experiencing a brain drain.That looks like the case with Financial Services Secretary Christopher Hui Ching-yu, who denied a brain drain even exists. Hui called these departures short-term, referring to them as being about more people leaving than entering due to the Covid travel restrictions.No matter which is closer to the truth, both statements were made in the face of figures to which officials cannot turn a blind eye.Last week, the European Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong published the figures after surveying its members. The findings were alarming, showing nearly half of the European companies have plans to fully or partially move out of Hong Kong in the next 12 months.As for the rest, only 17 percent were affirmative that they had no such plan at all. Roughly 34 percent were undecided.The survey was conducted from mid-January to early February, before Lam’s announcement of a roadmap to enable the SAR to emerge from the pandemic.Although the outcome would likely have been different if the survey had been conducted after the press conference, the fact that less than one fifth of the European firms were as committed as before is still a major cause for concern.Findings of similar surveys have been rather consistent. For example, an earlier poll by the American Chamber of Commerce found 44 percent of its responding members were likely to leave.While those numbers were disturbing, it is no less unsettling to see that Lam and Hui only seemed to have the multinational companies and their senior executives in mind. How about the ongoing trend of families selling their properties and leaving the SAR in large numbers?That should not be ignored.Among the ongoing exodus are accountants, architects, doctors, lawyers, nurses and other professionals that Hong Kong needs to keep thriving.The financial services secretary is right to be confident that many of the senior company executives will head back to the city once the pandemic has stabilized and normal international travel resumes because the SAR will still be the number-one choice for companies if they want to continue doing business with China.Singapore, Dubai and Tokyo may offer the multinational companies a bridging alternative during the public health crisis, but they are not as close to China as Hong Kong.Nonetheless, this process of returning to Hong Kong may still take awhile and not happen as fast as one may wish.As Hui and his boss wait for the “good birds” to return to perch on the tree called Hong Kong, it would also be in everyone’s interest to strive harder to enhance the appeal of this tree in light of the recent blow dealt by the resignation of two eminent British judges from the Court of Final Appeal.It’s so true that good birds choose the tree upon which to perch. So make this tree appealing to the good birds. Arts & Humanities English LANG A335F Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)