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Hong Kong English
Setter, Jane1; Wong, Cathy Sin-Ping2; Chan, Brian Hok Shing3
Subtype著Authored
2010-08
PublisherEdinburgh University Press
Publication PlaceEdinburgh
Table of Contents

Acknowledgements                                        viii

1 Geography, demography and cultural factors               1
 1.1 History                                               4
 1.2 Languages                                             4
 1.3 Cultural factors                                      6
 1.4 Variation in Hong Kong English                        8
 1.5 Data from our speakers                                9
 1.6 Other data used                                      10
 1.7 Outline of the book                                  10

2 Phonetics and phonology                                 12
 2.1 The consonantal inventory                            13
 2.2 Voicing contrasts and glottal stops                  13
 2.3 Dental fricatives                                    17
 2.4 Final consonant cluster simplifi cation              18
 2.5 /l/- vocalisation                                    21
 2.6 The /n/–/l/ merger                                   21
 2.7 Diphthongs followed by consonants                    23
 2.8 Initial consonant cluster simplifi cation            23
 2.9 You pronounced [tʃu]                                 24
 2.10 Infl uences from Cantonese on consonants in
      Hong Kong English                                   25
 2.11 The vowel inventory                                 27
 2.12 Vowel quality and quantity                          28
 2.13 Diphthongs                                          30
 2.14 Word stress                                         31
 2.15 Compound stress                                     34
 2.16 Rhythm                                              35
 2.17 Sentence stress                                     38
 2.18 Pitch and nuclear tones                             39
 2.19 Summary                                             42

3 Morphosyntax                                            43
 3.1 ‘Random’ morphological markings                      45
 3.2 Double morphological markings                        48
 3.3 Tense switching                                      49
 3.4 Subject–verb agreement                               55
 3.5 Double subjects and zero subjects                    56
 3.6 Non- distinction between count and mass nouns        59
 3.7 Word order: modifi ers immediately precede heads     61
 3.8 Prepositions and transitivity                        63
 3.9 Conversion of grammatical categories                 65
 3.10 Summary                                             66

4 Discourse and lexis                                     68
 4.1 Discourse markers                                    69
 4.2 Actually in spoken discourse                         71
 4.3 Because and so in spoken discourse                   74
 4.4 Topic–comment sentences                              76
 4.5 Utterance- fi nal particles                          78
 4.6 Question tags in spoken discourse                    78
 4.7 Written discourse                                    80
 4.8 Lexis                                                81
 4.9 Borrowing                                            81
 4.10 Coinage, abbreviations and acronyms                 85
 4.11 Blending and compounding                            87
 4.12 Affi xation                                         88
 4.13 Lexical choice                                      89
 4.14 Semantic change                                     89
 4.15 Hong Kong English vocabulary in computer-
      mediated communication                              89
 4.16 Examples of Hong Kong English vocabulary in our 
      data                                                90
 4.17 Summary                                             92

5 Code- switching                                         94
 5.1 Borrowing, code- mixing and code- switching          95
 5.2 Code- switching in Hong Kong                         97
 5.3 The morphosyntax of code- switching and
     Hong Kong English                                    98
 5.4 Code- switching as an agent of nativisation in
     Hong Kong English                                   102

6 Hong Kong English: a sociolinguistic history           103
 6.1 English in pre- colonial Hong Kong (pre- 1842)      103
 6.2 English as a colonial language (1842–1997)          104
 6.3 English in the post- colonial era                   107
 6.4 Hong Kong English: new variety or learner language? 112

7 Annotated bibliography                                 117
 7.1 General works on Hong Kong English                  117
 7.2 Phonetics and phonology                             117
 7.3 Morphosyntax                                        118
 7.4 Discourse and lexis                                 119
 7.5 Code- switching                                     119
 7.6 The history of Hong Kong English                    120
 7.7 References                                          120

8 Transcripts for the data from our speakers             130
 8.1 Transcription conventions                           130
 8.2 Speaker 1: Happy event task (01- HE)                130
 8.3 Speaker 1: Map task (01- MT)                        133
 8.4 Speaker 5: Happy event task (05- HE)                137
 8.5 Speaker 5: Map task (05- MT)                        148
 8.6 Speaker 8: Happy event task (08- HE)                152
 8.7 Speaker 8: Map task (08- MT)                        156
 8.8 Speaker 9: Happy event task (09- HE)                159
 8.9 Speaker 9: Map task (09- MT)                        165
 8.10 Speaker 10: Happy event task (10- HE)              168
 8.11 Speaker 10: Map task (10- MT)                      171

Index                                                    175

ISBN978-0-7486-3595-5 ; 978-0-7486-3596-2
Pages192
Language英語English
Scopus ID2-s2.0-84873674697
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CollectionFaculty of Arts and Humanities
Affiliation1.University of Reading
2.The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
3.The University of Macau
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Setter, Jane,Wong, Cathy Sin-Ping,Chan, Brian Hok Shing. Hong Kong English[M]. Edinburgh:Edinburgh University Press, 2010, 192.
APA Setter, Jane., Wong, Cathy Sin-Ping., & Chan, Brian Hok Shing (2010). Hong Kong English. Edinburgh University Press.
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