Mee Ling Lai
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mee Ling Lai plays a role.
Articles
2015 Power redistribution of languages in Hong Kong under a new national flag Explored but not Assumed: Revisiting Commonalities in Asian Pacific Communication, Chang, Hui-Ching and Ling Chen (eds.), pp. 141–164 | Article
Four years after the sovereignty of Hong Kong was returned from Britain to China, a Matched-guised Test (MGT) was conducted to examine the subjective reactions of students to speakers of the three major spoken languages used in the city (i.e. Cantonese, English and Putonghua). Respondents were the… read more
2007 Exploring Language Stereotypes in Post‑colonial Hong Kong through the Matched-guise Test Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 17:2, pp. 225–244 | Article
After the change of sovereignty in Hong Kong from Britain to China on July 1st, 1997, the status of Putonghua (the language of the new Chinese ruler) has been formally recognized in addition to Cantonese (the vernacular language) and English (the international and ex-colonizer’s language). Four… read more