While Asian Englishes such as Indian English, Malaysian English, Philippine English, and
Singapore English have gained wide acceptance in the past two decades, relatively little …

This paper is an update of Luke and Richards'(1982) study on the functions and status of
English in Hong Kong. The sociolinguistic matrix is described by outlining the distribution of …

This book attempts to put forward a coherent view of identity as a linguistic phenomenon in a
way that will speak to people across a wide range of interests. That is, inevitably, an …

Medium of instruction policies in education have considerable impact not only on the school
performance of students and the daily work of teachers, but also on various forms of social …

The dominant view of many linguists and educators has been that Hong Kong English is a
variety of the language that is derived from, and dependent on, the metropolitan norm of …

The mixture of different interested parties, from the elite locals, made up mostly of
businessmen, the British Hongs, the expatriate civil servants and their local counterparts, the …

Hong Kong was under British colonial rule for more than 150 years, having been colonized
by the British in 1842 as a result of the Opium War. In 1997, after a lengthy negotiation with …

Hong Kong is one of the very few places in the world where the common law can be
practiced in a language other than English. Introduced into the courtroom over a decade …

While spaces of consumption have been extensively studied in geography, recent
sociolinguistic research on metrolingual markets, semiotic landscapes, and translanguaging …

This paper suggests that Hong Kong English, insofar as it varies from Standard English, has
not achieved wide acceptance in the community. The paper approaches this by investigating …