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Futures for Hong Kong English
Author(s) -
Bolton Kingsley,
Lim Shirley
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
world englishes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.6
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-971X
pISSN - 0883-2919
DOI - 10.1111/1467-971x.00191
Subject(s) - creativity , ideology , sociology , invisibility , futures contract , autonomy , linguistics , creative writing , falling (accident) , media studies , literature , politics , psychology , political science , art , law , philosophy , physics , optics , psychiatry , financial economics , economics
In this paper the authors discuss the themes of autonomy and creativity as they have been expressed in this special issue. At a linguistic level, the emergence of Hong Kong English has been clouded by a cluster of language ideologies within a localised complaint tradition. This has included discourses relatinzg to ‘monolingualism’, the ‘invisibility’ of Hong Kong English, and ‘falling standards’. Parallel discourses have also constrained creative writing in Hong Kong, but the appearance of new Hong Kong writers points the way to a fresh and energetic future for literary creativity. One example of this is the new journal Yuan Yang , largely written and edited by creative writing students at The University of Hong Kong.