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Title: | A tale of two Special Administrative Regions : the state of multilingualism in Hong Kong and Macao | Authors: | Li, DCS Tong, CL |
Issue Date: | Oct-2020 | Source: | In H Klöter & M S Saarela (Eds.), Language diversity in the Sinophone world : historical trajectories, language planning, and multilingual practices, p. 142–163. London and New York: Routledge, 2020 | Abstract: | This chapter gives an overview of language diversity in Hong Kong and Macao. Both places enjoy a high level of sociopolitical autonomy, including the continued use of the former colonial languages—English and Portuguese, respectively—as co-official languages alongside Chinese, which is understood to refer to spoken Cantonese and Mandarin-based Standard Written Chinese (SWC). The language policies in both places aim at achieving biliteracy and trilingualism: the ability to read and write Chinese and English, and to speak and understand Cantonese, English, and Mandarin. Unlike elsewhere in the sinophone world, Cantonese as a regional Sinitic variety continues to be used as the medium of instruction (MoI) from kindergarten to secondary-level schools. Language contact phenomena, such as lexical borrowing from English and code-switching, are commonplace. With cross-border visits to and from mainland China becoming more and more frequent, the use of Mandarin is increasingly frequent in both communities. | Publisher: | Routledge | ISBN: | 9780367504519 (Hardback) 9781003049890 (Electronic book) |
DOI: | 10.4324/9781003049890-10 | Rights: | © 2021 selection and editorial matter, Henning Kloter and Marten Soderblom Saarela; individual chapters, the contributors This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge/CRC Press in Language Diversity in the Sinophone World: Historical Trajectories, Language Planning, and Multilingual Practices on October 6, 2020, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9781003049890 |
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