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Translanguaging or code-switching? Reassessing mixing of English in Hong Kong Cantonese
Chan, Brian Hok-Shing
2022-09
Source PublicationChinese Language and Discourse
ISSN1877-7031
Volume13Issue:2Pages:167-196
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Abstract

The emergence of “translanguaging” as a concept referring to bilingual practices has challenged the appropriateness of “code-switching” – the term that has been most influential in studies of bilingualism and language mixing. Reassessing the literature on Cantonese-English mixing in Hong Kong, this paper suggests that the kind of spontaneous code-switching in peer talk, largely intra-sentential (or intra-clausal) and intra-turn, can indeed be recast as translanguaging, where speakers transcend language boundaries between Cantonese and English for the purpose of meaning-making. Nevertheless, Hong Kong speakers do constantly draw language boundaries by marking words as English or Cantonese, both in metalinguistic judgment and in real-time language production. Revisiting an unpublished dataset of radio talk, this paper further illustrates a number of sequences in which Cantonese speakers may “languagise” the code-switched words or expressions as “English”. It is concluded that, in a Conversation-Analytic understanding, the difference between “translanguaging” and “code-switching” boils down to “languagising”, and the contrast between the two notions may have been overstated.

KeywordLanguagising Code-switching Repair Hong Kong Cantonese Translanguaging Radio Talk
DOI10.1075/cld.20003.cha
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Indexed ByESCI
Language英語English
WOS Research AreaLinguistics
WOS SubjectLinguistics
WOS IDWOS:000722921400001
PublisherJOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO, PO BOX 36224, 1020 ME AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
Scopus ID2-s2.0-85139232647
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Document TypeJournal article
CollectionFaculty of Arts and Humanities
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
Corresponding AuthorChan, Brian Hok-Shing
AffiliationThe University of Macau
First Author AffilicationUniversity of Macau
Corresponding Author AffilicationUniversity of Macau
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Chan, Brian Hok-Shing. Translanguaging or code-switching? Reassessing mixing of English in Hong Kong Cantonese[J]. Chinese Language and Discourse, 2022, 13(2), 167-196.
APA Chan, Brian Hok-Shing.(2022). Translanguaging or code-switching? Reassessing mixing of English in Hong Kong Cantonese. Chinese Language and Discourse, 13(2), 167-196.
MLA Chan, Brian Hok-Shing."Translanguaging or code-switching? Reassessing mixing of English in Hong Kong Cantonese".Chinese Language and Discourse 13.2(2022):167-196.
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