Code-switching—the alternating use of two languages in the same stretch of discourse by a
bilingual speaker—is a dominant topic in the study of bilingualism and a phenomenon that …

This volume provides an overview of all aspects of Hong Kong English in a style designed
for undergraduates and general readers. As a former British colony, Hong Kong used …

This paper is a review of the major works in code‐switching in Hong Kong to date. Four
context‐specific motivations commonly found in the Hong Kong Chinese press …

Code-mixing is the change of one language to another within the same utterance or in the
same oral/written text. It is a common phenomenon in societies in which two or more …

A foundational aspect of the psycholinguistics of bilingualism is the study of bilingual
development in early childhood. In our increasingly globalized world, many children are …

This paper reports on an experimental study. Twelve university students were asked (a) not
to speak any English for one day (b) to record examples of English words that they wanted to …

The different nations and regions of East Asia covered in this chapter–China, Hong Kong,
Taiwan and Japan–represent a range of language situations in terms of the extent of …

Complementizers are generally known as function words that introduce a clausal
complement, like that in English, for instance (Radford 1997). In many languages …

Codemixing of Cantonese Chinese and English is a common speech behaviour used by
bilingual people in Hong Kong. Though codemixing is repeatedly criticised as a cause of the …

The present study focuses on the codeswitching phenomenon in Hong Kong and Swedish
print newspaper advertisements. With a contrastive analysis of code-switched …