Providing a description and analysis of Hong Kong vernacular Cantonese speech styles, notably the language of the Triad-dominated criminal underworld, of teenagers and of Hong Kong movies and comics, this reference text is arranged alphabetically in both Cantonese and English.
A Dictionary of Cantonese Slang : The Language of Hong Kong Movies, Street Gangs and City Life
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Christopher Hutton studied linguistics at the University of Oxford and Columbia University in New York. He has taught Yiddish Studies at the University of Texas in Austin and general and English linguistics in Hong Kong. He is the author of The Type-token Relation in Linguistics Theory and Linguistics and the Third Reich. Kingsley Bolton is Chair Professor of English and Head of the English Department at City University of Hong Kong.