Overview
- A comprehensive account of Hong Kong's language situation and the language education needs of its majority and minority ethnic groups
- Linguistic and sociolinguistic challenges that affect the government’s goals for biliteracy of Chinese and English and trilingualism for Cantonese, English and Putonghua
- Insights on the linguistic outcomes of sustained contact between Cantonese and English
Part of the book series: Multilingual Education (MULT, volume 19)
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Keywords
- Biliteracy trilingualism: Language policy and impact on society
- Cantonese as an additional language (CAL)
- Chinese-English language contact
- Critical language issues in multilingual Hong Kong
- Ethnic Minority groups in Hong Kong
- History of contact between Cantonese and English
- Hong Kong written Chineses (HKWC)
- Lexical borrowing
- Minority language rights
- Multilingualism bilingualism
- Putonghua national language
- Salient lexico-syntactic features
- Teaching English in Hong Kong
- The Hong Kong language matrix
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Reviews
“David Li's book is therefore highly welcome, as it provides the reader with a thorough and up-to-date overview of the medium-of-instruction policies and debates in Hong Kong, while at the same time situating the policies within their historical and sociopolitical contexts. … this is an invaluable book for policy-makers in Hong Kong and elsewhere, as well as researchers working in the areas of language policy and planning, sociolinguistics and multilingual education.” (Jean-Jacques Weber, Journal of Sociolinguistics, Vol. 21 (4), September, 2017)
“Nevertheless, in skillfully combining extensive studies with rich data and rigorous analysis, this is one of the most reader-friendly books I have ever read about multilingual Hong Kong. … It is a page-turner that dwells upon complete factual grounds and highly clear exposition. I believe that the book is destined to become a required reading for those who share the same interest in multilingual Hong Kong as myself.” (Ye Zhu, The Journal of Asia TEFL, Vol. 3, 2017)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Multilingual Hong Kong: Languages, Literacies and Identities
Authors: David C.S. Li
Series Title: Multilingual Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44195-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-44193-1Published: 18 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83007-0Published: 20 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-44195-5Published: 12 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2213-3208
Series E-ISSN: 2213-3216
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 296
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations
Topics: Language Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Applied Linguistics