A corpus-based analysis of cultural conceptualizations from the domains of family and money in Hong Kong English
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15711718 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Denisa Latić (0000-0002-2946-332X, University of Potsdam, corresponding author), Hans‐georg Wolf (0000-0003-2429-769X) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 197-214 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Language and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2214-3157 • E-ISSN: 2214-3165 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/ijolc.4.2.04lat |
| OpenAlex | W2775461059 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 25 |
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
Centrality · China · Conceptualization · Context (archaeology · Filial piety · Linguistics · Political science · Relation (database · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Worship · Gender Studies · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |