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Hong Kong English and the Professional World
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Evans, Stephen – World Englishes, 2011
One of the dominant themes of the literature on language in Hong Kong is the belief that English, particularly its spoken form, plays a limited role in the lives of the territory's mainly Cantonese-speaking Chinese community. For this reason, it is argued, there is no societal basis for the development of a nativised variety of English. One of the…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Language Patterns, Speech Communication, Foreign Countries