<i>Committee, Staff, Council</i>, etc.: A Corpus Analysis of Collective Nouns in Hong Kong English

Wong, May

doi:10.1080/13488678.2009.10801246

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“…This period has witnessed the publication of several important monographs and edited volumes (Bolton, 2002a(Bolton, , 2003Setter, Wong, & Chan, 2010) as well as a plethora of article-length studies exploring a range of linguistic and sociolinguistic topics (e.g. Lee & Collins, 2006;Wong, 2009).…”

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Word-formation in Hong Kong English: diachronic and synchronic perspectives

Evans

2015

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The publication of the first dictionary of Hong Kong English (HKE) marks a major milestone in the legitimisation of HKE as an autonomous variety of English. This article examines the emergence and current prevalence of the vocabulary of HKE using five recently compiled corpora of English in Hong Kong. The diachronic perspective is provided by a 91-million-word corpus of Legislative Council proceedings (1858-2012) and a collection of 1379 letters published in the city's leading Englishlanguage newspapers (1842-2010). The synchronic perspective is derived from a three-million-word corpus of lifestyle-magazine articles (2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012), a database containing 2820 letters published in the South China Morning Post in 2012 and the well-known Corpus of Global Web-based English. These corpora are used to assess the representativeness of the HKE lexicon compiled by the authors of the dictionary, to identify the principal processes of word-formation and to determine phases in the evolution of the HKE vocabulary.

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Word-formation in Hong Kong English: diachronic and synchronic perspectives

Evans

2015

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“…This period has witnessed the publication of several important monographs and edited volumes (Bolton, 2002(Bolton, , 2003Setter, Wong & Chan, 2010) as well as a plethora of article-length studies exploring key features and facets of HKE, such as phonology (Hung, 2000;Sewell & Chan, 2010), lexis (Benson, 2000;Groves & Chan, 2010), grammar and syntax (Wong, 2007(Wong, , 2009Gisborne, 2009), creativity (Chik, 2010) and attitudes (Bunton & Tsui, 2002;Lee & Collins, 2006;Li, 2009a). One consequence of the remarkable florescence of HKE research in recent years has been the recognition of HKE internationally as an autonomous variety of English (McArthur, 2002).…”

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Hong Kong English: The Growing Pains of A New Variety

Evans¹

2011

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A recurring theme in the literature on English in Hong Kong is the belief that since English apparently plays a negligible role in the everyday lives of its mainly Cantonese-speaking population, there is no societal basis for the emergence of a nativised variety. One of the limitations of this entirely plausible view is that it is not substantiated by empirical evidence. This article seeks to bridge the gap in our knowledge in this area by reporting the findings of a large-scale, survey-based study of teenagers' and young adults' use of and exposure to English in their day-to-day lives. The findings indicate that spoken English is generally not used in the family and friendship domains and has a limited presence in most neighbourhoods across the territory. However, the evidence suggests that reading and writing in English occupy a considerable portion of many young Hongkongers' leisure time. The findings also indicate that they are exposed to a great deal of spoken English as a result of their interest in watching films and television and listening to music. The study's key conclusion is that English plays a much greater role in young Hongkongers' everyday lives than has hitherto been believed.

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