Multilingual Hong Kong: Languages, Literacies and Identities

Autori

• David B.

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• 296 pagine
• 11 ore di lettura

• Libri di testo
• Libri di testo universitari
• Scienze sociali

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This volume gives an up-to-date account of the language situation and social context in multilingual Hong Kong. After an in-depth, interpretive analysis of various language contact phenomena, it shows why it is such a tall order for Hongkongers to live up to the Special Administrative Region government's language policy goalpost, 'biliteracy and trilingualism'. A detailed contrastive analysis between Cantonese and (a) English, (b) Modern Written Chinese, and (c) Putonghua helps explain the nature of the linguistic and acquisitional challenges involved

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2017

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