Code-Mixing and Code Choice: A Hong Kong Case Study

by John Gibbons and John Gibbons

Code-mixing is a fast developing area of interest for those concerned with bilingualism, sociolinguistics and applied linguistics. Just as the language phenomena produced initially by contact between groups who did not share a language - pidginization and creolization - have proved to be revealing in the study of second language development and language universals, so also the examination of the mixing of two or more languages within bilingual communities...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 090502866X
• ISBN13: 9780905028668
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Length: 184 Pages