Titlebook: Hong Kong English; Exploring Lexicogram May Wong Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 Corpus linguistics.World En

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Hong Kong English: An Overview,ong explores the methodological implications of corpus linguistics in World-Englishes research. ‘The profile of structural features in Hong Kong English’ concludes with a brief overview of detailed case studies of different aspects of this variety of English undertaken in the subsequent chapters of the book ..

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Tag Questionsquestions, Wong demonstrates that Hong Kong people tend to use tags primarily for confirming and encouraging participation of speakers in conversation. The chapter also discusses possible cross-cultural implications of the tendencies of tag questions in HKE.

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Expressions of Gratitudede formulae and appreciation of the interlocutors in conversations are exceedingly rare, hinting at the possibility of substrate influence that Chinese people in general are being too reserved to express their gratitude openly and explicitly.

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Book 2017been hitherto neglected. This book offers original insights into the grammatical and pragmatic/discoursal features of Hong Kong English and will therefore be of interest to those working in fields such as World Englishes and corpus linguistics.

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Collective Nounsdata, and that convention rather than semantic/pragmatic motivation plays a crucial role in concord patterns with collective nouns, with individual collective nouns showing their own preferences for a singular or plural form.

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Code-Mixing of Indigenous Cantonese Words into English texts, suggesting that code-mixing could be a solidarity marker. The chapter also explores other motivations for code-mixing such as the absence of a semantic match between Cantonese proper nouns and their English translations.

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Conclusionmples of Hong Kong English (HKE). In this chapter, Wong provides brief summaries of case studies concerning different structural/discoursal features of this new English variety and discusses some emergent issues arising from her study, reaffirming the status of HKE as an emerging nativised variety of English.

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