The Sociolinguistics of Code-switching in Hong Kong’s Digital Landscape: A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Cantonese-English Alternation Patterns on WhatsApp

• Main Authors: Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong, Tsang, Yuen Man
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2023
• Subjects: language variation and change in Hong Kong; Cantonese-English code-switching; sociolinguistic variation in East Asia; digital sociolinguistic corpus of WhatsApp; identity construction in a digital landscape; Applied Linguistics; Communication; Computational Linguistics; Data Science; East Asian Languages and Societies; Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies; Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/jeal/vol2/iss1/2; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/jeal/article/1041/viewcontent/RA_1_Gonzales_revised2.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

This paper examines the prevalence of Cantonese-English code-mixing in Hong Kong through an under-researched digital medium. Prior research on this code-alternation practice has often been limited to exploring either the social or linguistic constraints of code-switching in spoken or written communi...