Title Cantonese as written language : the growth of a written Chinese vernacular / Don Snow

Published Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 320 pages) : illustrations Contents Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Preface -- 1 Why Study the Development of Written Cantonese? -- 2 From Spoken Vernacular to Written Language -- 3 Spoken and Written Cantonese -- 4 Written Cantonese in Pre-modern Guangdong -- 5 The Hong Kong Dialect Literature Movement -- 6 Written Cantonese in Modern Hong Kong -- 7 Why Has Use of Written Cantonese Increased? -- 8 Epilogue: The Future of Written Cantonese -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL In HKU Press digital editions Subject Cantonese dialects -- China -- Hong Kong -- Rhetoric Chinese language -- Dialects -- China -- Guangdong Sheng Chinese language -- Dialects -- China -- Hong Kong FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Chinese. Chinese language -- Dialects Schriftsprache China -- Guangdong Sheng China -- Hong Kong Kantonesisch. Form Electronic book ISBN 9789882200531 9882200532

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