Helen Hue Lam Leung

List of John Benjamins publications in which Helen Hue Lam Leung is involved.

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Leung, Helen Hue Lam 2017 Chapter 8. Cantonese ‘mong4’: A cultural keyword of ‘busy’ Hong Kong Cultural Keywords in Discourse, Levisen, Carsten and Sophia Waters (eds.), pp. 183–210 | Chapter
This chapter investigates the Hong Kong Cantonese cultural keyword ‘mong4’.1 Mong is usually translated into English as busy and into Mandarin as máng, but though their meanings overlap, many examples of busy and máng cannot be translated directly into Cantonese using mong. This is… read more
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