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Researching Hong Kong English: bibliographical resources
Author(s) -
Bolton Kingsley
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.00192
Subject(s) - world englishes , interlanguage , linguistics , section (typography) , thriving , extant taxon , sociology , bibliography , sociolinguistics , history , relevance (law) , listing (finance) , library science , media studies , social science , political science , computer science , philosophy , evolutionary biology , biology , operating system , finance , law , economics
This paper provides a brief guide to published research relevant to the study of Hong Kong Kong English, together with a selective bibliography. Hong Kong now has a thriving research culture although a substantial proportion of published research has earlier been devoted to applied linguistic and language pedagogy, where the discussion of ‘Hong Kong English’ has frequently been linked to studies of error analysis and interlanguage. The selective bibliography attempts to survey published research in those areas of sociolinguistics and applied linguistics of most relevance to the world Englishes paradigm, and also includes a section listing publications related to Hong Kong creative writing in English. The final section lists extant bibliographies in print and/or available online via the Internet.[Note 1. I wish to thank Nigel Bruce of the English ...]