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Sinica venetiana
Edited book | Corpus-Based Research on Chinese Language and Linguistics
Chapter | What Can the Corpus of Mid-20th Century Hong Kong Cantonese Tell Us About Hong Kong Society of Half a Century Ago?
What Can the Corpus of Mid-20th Century Hong Kong Cantonese Tell Us About Hong Kong Society of Half a Century Ago?
- Andy Chin - The Education University of Hong Kong - email
Abstract
This paper reports on a corpus-based sociolinguistic study of terms of address with a special focus on kinship terms found in The Corpus of Mid-20th Century Hong Kong Cantonese, which has a size of about one million Chinese character tokens. The corpus data was collected by transcribing the speech dialogues of 81 black-and-white movies produced in Hong Kong between 1940 and 1970. The kinship terms extracted from the corpus can tell us about the family structure and marital life of Hong Kong six decades ago.
Submitted: March 6, 2020 | Accepted: March 29, 2020 | Language: en
Keywords Corpus-based sociolinguistic study • Cantonese corpus • Early Hong Kong society • Terms of address • Family culture
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Chin Andy |
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What Can the Corpus of Mid-20th Century Hong Kong Cantonese Tell Us About Hong Kong Society of Half a Century Ago? |
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This paper reports on a corpus-based sociolinguistic study of terms of address with a special focus on kinship terms found in The Corpus of Mid-20th Century Hong Kong Cantonese, which has a size of about one million Chinese character tokens. The corpus data was collected by transcribing the speech dialogues of 81 black-and-white movies produced in Hong Kong between 1940 and 1970. The kinship terms extracted from the corpus can tell us about the family structure and marital life of Hong Kong six decades ago. |
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Sinica venetiana |
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Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari |
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2020-12-21 |
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2020-03-29 |
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2020-03-06 |
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http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-407-3/what-can-the-corpus-of-mid-20th-century-hong-kong/ |
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10.30687/978-88-6969-406-6/009 |
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2610-9654 |
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2610-9042 |
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978-88-6969-407-3 |
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978-88-6969-406-6 |
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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Cantonese corpus |
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Cantonese corpus |
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Corpus-based sociolinguistic study |
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Corpus-based sociolinguistic study |
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Early Hong Kong society |
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Early Hong Kong society |
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Family culture |
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Family culture |
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Terms of address |
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Terms of address |
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