Publications

Publication details [#57961]

Lai, Mee-Ling. 2013. The linguistic landscape of Hong Kong after the change of sovereignty. The International Journal of Multilingualism 10 (3) : 251–272.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | language use | minority language | multilingualism | sign

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This analysis of 1160 visual signs exposed in public spaces in four selected Hong Kong zones illuminates to which level Hong Kong is a multilingual city, how influential the PRC is after sovereignty change, and how widely minority groups are represented in the Hong Kong linguistic landscape.