| Issues in Bilingualism and Biculturalism: A Hong Kong Case Study Contributor(s): Rauch, Irmengard (Editor), David Chor Li (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820430366 ISBN-13: 9780820430362 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $70.35 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Chinese - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language - Foreign Language Study | Miscellaneous |
| Dewey: 495.104 |
| LCCN: 95047141 |
| Series: Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics, |
| Physical Information: 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Issues in Bilingualism and Biculturalism" describes the nature and extent of code-mixing in Hong Kong in the 1990s. It is mainly based on written data obtained from the local Chinese press collected systematically over a period of two years since late 1992. While previous studies on code-mixing between Cantonese and English in Hong Kong tend to emphasize sociolinguistic motivations, this book presents evidence that much of the code-mixing behaviour, be it in print or in speech, may be traced back to linguistic motivations at work resulting from sustained contact between Cantonese, modern standard Chinese and increasingly, English. This study further argues that, largely as a correlate of biculturalism, code-mixing - which is indicative of linguistic convergence in the mind of the average Hong Kong bilingual - is simply unstoppable, given that the norms prescribed for the written standard varieties of Chinese and English deviate considerably from those of the vernacular Cantonese. |