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Xu, 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
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Hutton, Christopher – Language Sciences, 1997
Discusses the role of rule in language as well as the role of the linguist in preserving and/or altering the rules. The article lists three terms and the distinctions among them emerging from Harris's viewpoint: law of nature, rule, and regularity. (14 references) (CK)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, Language Attitudes, Language Standardization