Bilingualism or Linguistic Segregation? Symbolic Domination, Resistance and Code Switching in Hong Kong Schools.

Lin, Angel M. Y.

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ERIC Number: EJ527743

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Publication Date: 1996

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Bilingualism or Linguistic Segregation? Symbolic Domination, Resistance and Code Switching in Hong Kong Schools.

Lin, Angel M. Y.

Linguistics and Education, v8 n1 p49-84 1996

Examines the historical and socioeconomic context of classroom code switching in Hong Kong. Empirical analyses of actual instances of classroom code switching reveal this action to be the teachers' and students' local pragmatic response to the symbolic domination of English. The article concludes with a cost-benefit analysis of the Hong Kong educational system. (76 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cantonese, Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Code Switching (Language), Discourse Analysis, English, Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes, Language Dominance, Language of Instruction, Official Languages, Secondary School Students, Socioeconomic Influences

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: China; Hong Kong; United Kingdom (Great Britain)

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