TY - BOOK ID - 25100341 TI - Chinese Englishes: a sociolinguistic history PY - 2003 SN - 0521811635 9780521811637 0521030013 9780521030014 PB - Cambridge: Cambridge university press, DB - UniCat KW - Sociolinguistics KW - English language KW - Dialectology KW - China KW - Chinese speakers. KW - S14/0810 KW - China: Education--Teaching foreign languages to Chinese KW - S15/1300 KW - Germanic languages KW - Social aspects KW - Study and teaching&delete& KW - Chinese speakers KW - Study and teaching KW - Variation KW - China: Language--Other languages in China KW - English language - China. KW - English language - Variation - China. KW - English language - Social aspects - China. KW - English language - Study and teaching - China. KW - English language - Study and teaching - Chinese speakers. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:25100341 AB - This book explores the history of the English language in China from the arrival of the first English-speaking traders in the early seventeenth century to the present. Kingsley Bolton brings together and examines a substantial body of historical, linguistic, and sociolinguistic research on the description and analysis of English in Hong Kong and China. He uses early word-lists, satirical cartoons and data from journals and memoirs, as well as more conventional sources, to uncover the forgotten history of English in China and to show how contemporary Hong Kong English has its historical roots in Chinese pidgin English. The book also considers the varying status of English in mainland China over time, and recent developments since 1997. With its interdisciplinary perspective, the book will appeal not only to linguists, but to all those working in the fields of Asian studies and English studies, including those concerned with cultural and literary studies. ER -