Kingsley Bolton

List of John Benjamins publications in which Kingsley Bolton is involved.

Journal

English World-Wide

A Journal of Varieties of English

Edited by Marianne Hundt and Anne Schröder

ISSN 0172-8865 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9730

Articles

Bolton, Kingsley 2012 Chapter 13. Language policy and planning in Hong Kong: The historical context and current realities English in Southeast Asia: Features, policy and language in use, Low, Ee-Ling and Azirah Hashim (eds.), pp. 221–238 | Chapter

Until 1974, Chinese had no de jure status as an official language of Hong Kong where the colonial government had often claimed to favour a laissez-faire approach to language planning. In the run-up to the resumption of Chinese sovereignty throughout the 1990s, official policy became more… read more

Bolton, Kingsley, Gerald Nelson and Joseph Hung 2002 A corpus-based study of connectors in student writing: Research from the International Corpus of English in Hong Kong (ICE-HK) International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 7:2, pp. 165–182 | Article

This paper focuses on connector usage in the writing of university students in Hong Kong and in Great Britain, and presents results based on the comparison of data from the Hong Kong component (ICE-HK) and the British component (ICE-GB) of the International Corpus of English (ICE). While previous… read more