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Factors affecting the acceptability of grammatical features of Hong Kong English : undergraduate students’ ambivalence towards the grammatical features of Hong Kong English
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Ting, Shawnea Sum Pok and Wong, Janice Wing Sze (2019) Factors affecting the acceptability of grammatical features of Hong Kong English : undergraduate students’ ambivalence towards the grammatical features of Hong Kong English. English Today, 35 (2). pp. 29-35. doi:10.1017/s0266078418000172 ISSN 0266-0784.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078418000172
Abstract
Although a large number of varieties of English in Asia have gained recognition as independent varieties, this has not been the case for Hong Kong English (HKE) (Jenkins, 2015: 162). The city has a low level of affiliation towards HKE (Jenkins, 2015: 167) and often laments its ever-falling standard of English (Leung, 2015). There exists a phenomenon of ‘linguistic schizophrenia’ – the community may recognise that a local variety of English exists and conform to its features in practice, but it still looks to native varieties as the norm and views local features as evidence of deteriorating language standards (Kachru, 1983: 118).
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | English Today | ||||||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0266-0784 | ||||||||
Official Date: | June 2019 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 35 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 29-35 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1017/s0266078418000172 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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