Linguistic Features of Email and ICQ Instant Messaging in Hong Kong

The Multilingual Internet: Language, Culture, and Communication Online

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Lee, Carmen K M ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cantonese; Chinese; Code mixing; English; Linguistic features; Romanization; Writing systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920752531     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195304794.003.0008     Document Type: Chapter

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