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Direct linkFong, Emily Tsz Yan – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2010
Hong Kong popular culture played an important role in the construction and consolidation of Hong Kong identity long before the handover to China. In the past few years leading up to the 10th anniversary of the handover, both Hong Kong and China have undergone numerous changes which seem to be changing their relations. Whilst Hong Kong people had…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Intergroup Relations, Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese
Download full textXu, Xiang – International Education Studies, 2009
From the point of view on postcolonial theories, this paper explores English language's influence on normal Chinese and Hong Kong Chinese, and concludes the advantage and disadvantage of this phenomenon.
Descriptors: Chinese, Foreign Policy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedScollon, Ron – World Englishes, 1997
Reports on a study of news discourse in Hong Kong. The study argues that, across the world of news discourse, in English as well as other languages, there is a very high level of diversity and interdiscursivity of practice. (19 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Cultural Context, Foreign Countries, Mass Media
Li Lee, May-yu – 1983
Two experiments were undertaken in Hong Kong to examine sociocultural factors in the speech acts of making apologies in Cantonese. The first experiment involved ten men who were given role cards describing various situations with minor to serious problems for which they must apologize. The influence of certain situational variables on the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cantonese, Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis
