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Politicised expressions in the South China Morning Post

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

David R. Carless
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Abstract

A discussion of loan translations, metaphors and other usages that have arisen in the English of Hong Kong in recent years

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English Today , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , April 1995 , pp. 18 - 22
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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