Chinese Englishes : a sociolinguistic history / Kingsley Bolton.
"This book explores the history of the English language in China from the arrival of the first English-speaking traders in the early seventeenth century to the present. Kingsley Bolton brings together and examines a substantial body of historical, linguistic, and sociolinguistic research on the...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Series: | Studies in English language.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. New Englishes and World Englishes: pluricentric approaches to English worldwide
- 2. The sociolinguistics of English in late colonial Hong Kong, 1980-1997
- 3. The archaeology of 'Chinese Englishes', 1637-1949
- 4. The emergency of Hong Kong English as a 'new English'
- 5. Hong Kong, China and Chinese Englishes
- App. 1. Chinese dialects in China
- App. 2. Chinese dialects in Guangdong (Canton) province
- App. 3. The Yale system for transcribing Cantonese
- App. 4. The Common Foreign Language of the Redhaired People (1835)
- App. 5. The vocabulary of Hong Kong English.