This volume brings together linguistic, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic perspectives on
code-switching. Featuring new data from five continents and languages with a large range of …

Why two languages might be better than one: Motivations of language mixing in Hong Kong
Page 162 5 Why Two Languages Might Be Better Than One: Motivations of Language Mixing …

This paper attempts to investigate Chinese-English code-switching behaviour present in
blogs (a kind of computer-mediated communication) belonging to young people in Macao …

This article analyzes the discourses of a stand-up comedy routine entitled 'What's Next?'in
Hong Kong. The comedy routine is performed chiefly in Cantonese with the occasional …

This dissertation argues for the position that code-switching utterances are constrained by
the same set of mechanisms as those which govern monolingual utterances. While this …

“It doesn't matter how you deal with them, it doesn't matter who you are, keisat (actually) the
way that you present yourself by lei go (your) language jiging beizo jatzung (already give …

The trilingual (Cantonese, Putonghua and English) and multicultural setting of Hong Kong
makes it a language contact zone in which different patterns of code-mixing occur. Previous …

本文以香港报章有关语言材料(尤其是在香港书面汉语中使用颇率较高的“机会” 一词)
为依据进行语义分析, 试图从翻译的角度, 在语义这个平面上考察并确定英语对香港书面汉语的 …

'Hybridity'is always the buzzword in descriptions of Hong Kong and its culture. Not only is it
the image actively promoted by the government and the Tourist Association (namely, Hong …

This dissertation was written based on a small-scale study using an elicitation approach in
order to investigate students' English-Cantonese code mixing behaviour in Hong Kong. The …