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Investigating Hong Kong English - Globalization and Identity (Paperback, New edition)
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Investigating Hong Kong English - Globalization and Identity (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Intercultural Studies and Foreign Language Learning, 14
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The status of Hong Kong English has been an increasing concern
among the local population. Despite prolific research into
attitudes towards language variation within the field of
sociolinguistics in general, very few studies have focused on the
Hong Kong context. Previous research has demonstrated that native
English speakers tend to evaluate Standard English varieties highly
as far as status is concerned, while non-standard varieties are
evaluated highly in terms of solidarity. There is still, however, a
noticeable lack of information about the attitudes of Hong Kong
Chinese people to different English varieties and, particularly,
about their attitudes to the local non-standard variety. This
richly detailed case study sets out to investigate the attitudes of
Hong Kong university students to eight varieties of English speech.
It employs a range of direct and indirect techniques of attitude
measurement in order to obtain in-depth information about the
students' perceptions. The book also discusses the important
pedagogical implications of the choice of linguistic model in
English language teaching, both within the Hong Kong population and
among other Chinese communities.
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