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Providing a description and analysis of Hong Kong vernacular Cantonese speech styles, notably the language of the Triad-dominated criminal underworld, of teenagers and of Hong Kong movies and comics, this reference text is arranged alphabetically in both Cantonese and English.
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Review:
'Cantonese popular literature, comic books and movies-in fact, everyday life-is incomprehensiblewithout some understanding of slang. [A...]A Dictionary of Cantonese Slang is the one and only, covering everything from common colloquialismsto triad trash-talking.' -Professor Frank Dikotter, SOAS'a very significant contribution to the field of Chinese lexicography. [A...] Will shed much light on the kind of Cantonese speech that many people know about, talk about, and use in their daily conversations yet have not considered worthy of serious scholarship.' -Robert S. Bauer, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
About the Author:
Christopher Hutton has taught Yiddish studies at the University of Texas at Austin and general and English linguistics in Hong Kong. Kingsley Bolton is professor of linguistics at the University of Stockholm.
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- PublisherC Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1850654190
- ISBN 13 9781850654193
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages492
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