A corpus-based analysis of cultural conceptualizations from the domains of family and money in Hong Kong English
| Autor: | Hans-Georg Wolf, Denisa Latić |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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050101 languages & linguistics
Multidisciplinary Conceptualization media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Gender studies 06 humanities and the arts Variety (linguistics) Worship language.human_language Corpus linguistics 0502 economics and business language 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Hong Kong English Ethnolinguistics Sociology China Centrality 050203 business & management media_common |
| Zdroj: | Cultural Linguistic Contributions to World Englishes. 4:197-214 |
| ISSN: | 2214-3165 2214-3157 |
| DOI: | 10.1075/ijolc.4.2.04lat |
| Popis: | Hong Kong culture blends paradoxes: In it, life and death, the real and the other world coexist in the traditions of its inhabitants, which eventually surface in the variety of English spoken in this Special Administrative Region of China. Our corpus-linguistic analysis, on the basis of ICE-HK and the GloWbE (Davies 2013) corpus,1 demonstrates the centrality of the family concept and its ramifications as well as its relation to the concept of money in Hong Kong English. The conceptualization children are an investment does not only show the conceptual network family and money belong to, but also lucidly shows the dynamics within the parent-child relationship, which is governed by filial piety and elderly care when the investment bears fruit. Collocations such as ‘hungry ghost,’ ‘hell money,’ and ‘worship ancestors’ are combinations of common core English terms that underwent semantic extension under the influence of the local Hong Kong cultural context. Our data shows how tightly language and culture are linked and that culture and cultural changes are the main factors to influence language and its development. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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