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Changing attitudes to English

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Joseph Boyle
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Abstract

Four expatriate perspectives on the uses and prospects of the language at the time of the changeover in Britain's last Asian colony.

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English in Hong Kong
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English Today , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , July 1997 , pp. 3 - 6
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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