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Article: Language policy, 'Asia's world city' and anglophone Hong Kong writing
Title | Language policy, 'Asia's world city' and anglophone Hong Kong writing |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Asia Hong Kong language and literacy literature transnationalism |
Issue Date | 2010 |
Publisher | Routledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/1369801X.asp |
Citation | Interventions, 2010, v. 12 n. 3, p. 428-441 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Hong Kong's official language policy of 'biliteracy' (Chinese and English) and 'trilingualism' (Cantonese, Putonghua, English), announced after the reversion to China in 1997, claims to address actualities of language use in the territory, remove inequities between English and Chinese, and consolidate the linguistic platform to launch Hong Kong as 'Asia's World City'. Public discussion of and controversy over this policy immediately followed, and have continued in the past decade. But they have tended to focus on the implementation of the policy in education, specifically the medium of instruction in schools, to the exclusion of most other areas of language use. Drawing on recent examples of translingual practice in literary writing, this essay argues first that such actually existing practices are far more verbally nuanced, self-knowing and self-reflexive than the official policy would allow, and second, that they instantiate Hong Kong's identity as 'Asian', which challenges both the official and public focus on Chinese and English. The 'world' and 'world city' that emerge from such writing are historically located in the transition before and after 1997, when the writers acquired their languages in schools. They are also provisional, generated by a poeisis of experimentation that attends to cultural change as language change in - and as - everyday life. © 2010 Taylor & Francis. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/146812 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 0.5 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.358 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Ho, EYL | en_HK |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-05-22T04:53:57Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2012-05-22T04:53:57Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.citation | Interventions, 2010, v. 12 n. 3, p. 428-441 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issn | 1369-801X | en_HK |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/146812 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Hong Kong's official language policy of 'biliteracy' (Chinese and English) and 'trilingualism' (Cantonese, Putonghua, English), announced after the reversion to China in 1997, claims to address actualities of language use in the territory, remove inequities between English and Chinese, and consolidate the linguistic platform to launch Hong Kong as 'Asia's World City'. Public discussion of and controversy over this policy immediately followed, and have continued in the past decade. But they have tended to focus on the implementation of the policy in education, specifically the medium of instruction in schools, to the exclusion of most other areas of language use. Drawing on recent examples of translingual practice in literary writing, this essay argues first that such actually existing practices are far more verbally nuanced, self-knowing and self-reflexive than the official policy would allow, and second, that they instantiate Hong Kong's identity as 'Asian', which challenges both the official and public focus on Chinese and English. The 'world' and 'world city' that emerge from such writing are historically located in the transition before and after 1997, when the writers acquired their languages in schools. They are also provisional, generated by a poeisis of experimentation that attends to cultural change as language change in - and as - everyday life. © 2010 Taylor & Francis. | en_HK |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Routledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/1369801X.asp | en_HK |
dc.relation.ispartof | Interventions | en_HK |
dc.rights | This is an electronic version of an article published in Interventions, 2010, v. 12 n. 3, p. 428-441. Interventions is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/ with the open URL of your article. | - |
dc.subject | Asia | en_HK |
dc.subject | Hong Kong | en_HK |
dc.subject | language and literacy | en_HK |
dc.subject | literature | en_HK |
dc.subject | transnationalism | en_HK |
dc.title | Language policy, 'Asia's world city' and anglophone Hong Kong writing | en_HK |
dc.type | Article | en_HK |
dc.identifier.email | Ho, EYL: eylho@hku.hk | en_HK |
dc.identifier.authority | Ho, EYL=rp01162 | en_HK |
dc.description.nature | postprint | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/1369801X.2010.516100 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-79957853572 | en_HK |
dc.relation.references | http://www.scopus.com/mlt/select.url?eid=2-s2.0-79957853572&selection=ref&src=s&origin=recordpage | en_HK |
dc.identifier.volume | 12 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issue | 3 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.spage | 428 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.epage | 441 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000290308700009 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Ho, EYL=26034000200 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1369-801X | - |