Charting multilingualism : language censuses and language surveys in Hong Kong

• Main Authors: John Bacon-Shone, Bolton, Kingsley
• Other Authors: Pennington, Martha C.
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Hong Kong University Press 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics; DRNTU::Humanities::Language::Chinese
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/95841; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/38462
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The chapter reviews census and language survey data to present a comprehensive, longitudinal survey of the complex pattern of multilingualism and language diversity in Hong Kong over the twentieth century.