Jane Setter, Cathy S. P. Wong, Brian H.S. Chan

Hong Kong English

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An overview of all aspects of Hong Kong English in a style designed for undergraduates and general readers.

Produktdetails

• Dialects of English
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 138mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 252g
• ISBN-13: 9780748635962
• ISBN-10: 0748635963
• Artikelnr.: 28533388

Autorenporträt

Jane Setter, Senior Lecturer in Phonetics and Head of the Department of Applied Linguistics at the University of Reading, UK, is co-editor of Daniel Jones's English Pronouncing Dictionary (17th Edition, CUP 2006), and has published extensively on prosodic features in English pronunciation and phonology in Hong Kong English and other learner groups, as well as on intonation in speech pathologies such as Williams syndrome. Jane contributes regularly to the UCL Summer Course in English Phonetics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Geography, demography, and cultural factors
2. Phonetics and phonology
3. Morphosyntax
4. Lexis and Discourse features
5. History, including changes in progress
6. Survey of previous work and annotated bibliography
7. Sample texts.