Cantonese As Written Language
Subtitle: The Growth of a Written Chinese Vernacular
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Published: January 31, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9789622097094
Subjects: Language & Linguistics; Foreign Language Study; Foreign Language - Dictionaries / Phrase Books; Cantonese; Language; Asia - China; Chinese; Linguistics; Cantonese dialects; China; Chinese language; Dialects; Guangdong Sheng; Hong Kong; Rhetoric
Description: "Based on primary source research, including interviews with publishers and writers who played an important role in the growth of written Cantonese, the author argues that this move of Cantonese into the realm of written language is closely associated with Hong Kong's distinct local culture and identity. The growth of the written vernacular also reflects the territory's evolving cultural distinctiveness from mainland China, first as a British colony, and now as a Special Administrative Region of China."--Jacket.