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Title
Hong Kong English : Exploring Lexicogrammar and Discourse from a Corpus-Linguistic Perspective / by May Wong.
ISBN
9781137519641
1137519649
9781137519634
Published
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xviii, 213 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1057/978-1-137-51964-1 doi
Call Number
P128.C68
Dewey Decimal Classification
420
Summary
This book systematically examines the linguistic features and socio-cultural issues of ‘Hong Kong English’. The author focuses on authentic data taken from the International Corpus of English (the Hong Kong component) and the Corpus of Global Web-based English to track the ways in which the English language in Hong Kong has been adapted by its users. She also analyses the emergence of new forms and structures in its grammar and discourse. While the phonetic and phonological aspects of this variety of English have been well documented, its grammatical peculiarities and social language use have been hitherto neglected. This book offers original insights into the grammatical and pragmatic/discoursal features of Hong Kong English and will therefore be of interest to those working in fields such as World Englishes and corpus linguistics.
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Print version: 9781137519634
- Chapter 1. Hong Kong English: an overview
PART I: LEXICOGRAMMAR
Chapter 2. Tag questions
Chapter 3. Collective nouns
PART II: DISCOURSE
Chapter 4. Expressions of gratitude
Chapter 5. Code-mixing of indigenous Cantonese words into English
Chapter 6. Linguistic variation in digital discourse: the case of blogs
Chapter 7. Conclusion
Appendix 1. Indigenous Cantonese expressions in ICE-HK
Appendix 2. Positive and negative keywords of blogs in Hong Kong English.
