Hong Kong English / / Brian H. S. Chan, Jane Setter, Cathy S. P. Wong.
This volume provides an overview of all aspects of Hong Kong English in a style designed for undergraduates and general readers. As a former British colony, Hong Kong used English as the language of government, law and education in the early days of colonial rule. Since the Handover from British to...
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2010 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Dialects of English : DIEN
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Geography, demography and cultural factors
- 2 Phonetics and phonology
- 3 Morphosyntax
- 4 Discourse and lexis
- 5 Code- switching
- 6 Hong Kong English: a sociolinguistic history
- 7 Annotated bibliography
- 8 Transcripts for the data from our speakers
- Index