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Factors affecting the acceptability of grammatical features of Hong Kong English

Undergraduate students’ ambivalence towards the grammatical features of Hong Kong English

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 June 2018

Shawnea Sum Pok Ting  and
Janice Wing Sze Wong
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Although a large number of varieties of English in Asia have gained recognition as independent varieties, this has not been the case for Hong Kong English (HKE) (Jenkins, 2015: 162). The city has a low level of affiliation towards HKE (Jenkins, 2015: 167) and often laments its ever-falling standard of English (Leung, 2015). There exists a phenomenon of ‘linguistic schizophrenia’ – the community may recognise that a local variety of English exists and conform to its features in practice, but it still looks to native varieties as the norm and views local features as evidence of deteriorating language standards (Kachru, 1983: 118).

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English Today , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , June 2019 , pp. 29 - 35
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