New varieties, new creativities: ICQ and English-Cantonese e-discourse

Language and Literature

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 345-366

  Fung, Loretta ^a   Carter, Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilingual creativity; Code switching; Computer mediated communication; Hybrid variety; Wordplay

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249145211     PISSN: 09639470     EISSN: 14617293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963947007079112     Document Type: Article

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