Multilingual Hong Kong: Languages, Literacies and Identities

• Main Author: Li, David C.S (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Multilingual Education, 19
• Subjects: Education.; Applied linguistics.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Language and education.; Language Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Applied Linguistics.

This volume gives an up-to-date account of the language situation and social context in multilingual Hong Kong. After an in-depth, interpretive analysis of various language contact phenomena, it shows why it is such a tall order for Hongkongers to live up to the Special Administrative Region governm...