What Can the Corpus of Mid-20th Century Hong Kong Cantonese

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Campo DC	Valore
dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_3811
dc.contributor.author	Chin Andy
dc.title	What Can the Corpus of Mid-20th Century Hong Kong Cantonese Tell Us About Hong Kong Society of Half a Century Ago?
dc.type	Capitolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.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.
dc.relation.ispartof	Sinica venetiana
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-12-21
dc.dateAccepted	2020-03-29
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-03-06
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-407-3/what-can-the-corpus-of-mid-20th-century-hong-kong/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-406-6/009
dc.identifier.issn	2610-9654
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9042
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-407-3
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-406-6
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Cantonese corpus
dc.subject	Cantonese corpus
dc.subject	Corpus-based sociolinguistic study
dc.subject	Corpus-based sociolinguistic study
dc.subject	Early Hong Kong society
dc.subject	Early Hong Kong society
dc.subject	Family culture
dc.subject	Family culture
dc.subject	Terms of address
dc.subject	Terms of address

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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?

Andy Chin The Education University of Hong Kong

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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.

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29 Marzo 2020

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06 Marzo 2020

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978-88-6969-407-3

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978-88-6969-406-6

Keywords: Cantonese corpus • Family culture • Early Hong Kong society • Terms of address • Corpus-based sociolinguistic study

permalink: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-406-6/009

Copyright: © 2020 Andy Chin. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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