Hong Kong English

by Bolton, Kingsley

• ISBN13: 9789622095533
• ISBN10: 9622095534
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-01
• Publisher: Hong Kong Univ Pr

Summary

The dominant view of many linguists and educators has been that Hong Kong English is a variety of the language that is derived from, and dependent on, the metropolitan norm of British English. It has been argued that English in Hong Kong was never 'nativi

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Introduction 1
Hong Kong English: Autonomy and creativity
Kingsley Bolton
Part I: Language in Context	27	(90)
1 The sociolinguistics of Hong Kong and the space for Hong Kong English	29	(28)
Kingsley Bolton
2 The discourse and attitudes of English language teachers in Hong Kong	57	(22)
Amy B. M. Tsui and David Bunton
3 Cantonese English code switching research in Hong Kong: A survey of recent research	79	(22)
David C. S. Li
4 The English language media in Hong Kong	101	(18)
Chan Yuen ying
Part II: Language Form	117	(54)
5 Towards a phonology of Hong Kong English	119	(22)
Tony T N. Hung
6 Relative clauses in Hong Kong English	141	(20)
Nikolas Gisborne
7 Hong Kong words: Variation and context	161	(12)
Phil Benson
Part III: Dimensions of Creativity	171	(68)
8 Hong Kong writing and writing Hong Kong	173	(10)
Louise Ho
9 Defining Hong Kong poetry in English: An answer from linguistics	183	(16)
Agnes Lam
10 Writing between Chinese and English	199	(8)
Leung Ping kwan
11 From Yinglish to sado mastication	207	(12)
Nury Vittachi
12 Writing the literature of non denial	219	(22)
Xu Xi
Part IV: Resources	239	(54)
13 Analysing Hong Kong English: Sample texts from the International Corpus of English	241	(24)
Kingsley Bolton and Gerald Nelson
14 Cultural imagination and English in Hong Kong	265	(16)
Shirley Geok lin Lim
15 Researching Hong Kong English: Bibliographical Sources	281	(14)
Kingsley Bolton
Part V: Future Directions	293	(22)
16 Futures for Hong Kong English	295	(20)
Kingsley Bolton and Shirley Geok lin Lim
Index	315