TY - CHAP
T1 - The Hong Kong language context
AU - Li, Chor Shing David
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This chapter introduces the macrolinguistic context of multilingual Hong Kong society by outlining (a) the types and extents of the plurilinguality of its citizenry, (b) the current state of their biliteracy in Chinese and English, and (c) their perceived ethnolinguistic identities (Hongkonger, Chinese Hongkonger, Hong Kong Chinese, or Chinese) with reference to their attitudes towards Cantonese, English and Putonghua. The chapter will end with a synopsis of the rest of the book.
AB - This chapter introduces the macrolinguistic context of multilingual Hong Kong society by outlining (a) the types and extents of the plurilinguality of its citizenry, (b) the current state of their biliteracy in Chinese and English, and (c) their perceived ethnolinguistic identities (Hongkonger, Chinese Hongkonger, Hong Kong Chinese, or Chinese) with reference to their attitudes towards Cantonese, English and Putonghua. The chapter will end with a synopsis of the rest of the book.
KW - Postcolonial Hong Kong
KW - Multilingual society
KW - Macrolinguistic context
KW - Demography
KW - Vernacular Cantonese
KW - Plurilinguality
KW - Ethnolinguistic identity
KW - Language attitudes
KW - Language policy
KW - Biliteracy and trilingualism
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-44195-5_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-44195-5_1
M3 - Chapter in an edited book (as author)
SN - 9783319441931
T3 - Multilingual Education
SP - 1
EP - 19
BT - Multilingual Hong Kong : languages, literacies and identities
PB - Springer Netherlands
ER -