Hong Kong English : Exploring Lexicogrammar and Discourse from a Corpus-Linguistic Perspective

• Main Author: Wong, May (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2017.
• Subjects: angličtina > Hongkong (Čína); korpusová lingvistika; English language > Hong Kong (China); corpus linguistics; elektronické knihy; monografie; electronic books; monographs

This book systematically examines the linguistic features and socio-cultural issues of 'Hong Kong English'. The author focuses on authentic data taken from the International Corpus of English (the Hong Kong component) and the Corpus of Global Web-based English to track the ways in which th...