國立虎尾科技大學 |

Communication in the professional workplace in post-colonial Hong Kong : = The roles and statuses of Chinese and English.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Communication in the professional workplace in post-colonial Hong Kong :/
Reminder of title:	The roles and statuses of Chinese and English.
Author:	Green, Christopher Frank.
Description:	1 online resource (200 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: C.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International70-12C.
Subject:	Communication. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781073245093

Communication in the professional workplace in post-colonial Hong Kong : = The roles and statuses of Chinese and English.
Green, Christopher Frank.

Communication in the professional workplace in post-colonial Hong Kong :The roles and statuses of Chinese and English. - 1 online resource (200 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: C.

Thesis (D.Ed.)--University of Leicester (United Kingdom), 2001.

Includes bibliographical references

This study reports the findings of an investigation into the roles of English, standard written Chinese and Cantonese in the workplace in post-colonial Hong Kong. The study was motivated by the paucity of large-scale, broad-spectrum research into language use in workplace communication in Hong Kong. Previous studies, while helpful and suggestive, have tended either to focus on language use within a single profession, or are small-scale in scope. The findings of this study derive from a questionnaire survey of 3,019 subjects employed in both the public and private sectors and by Hong Kong-owned and foreign-owned organisations. Subjects mostly held junior rank within their employing organisations and were drawn from large, medium-sized and small employing concerns within the five broad professional fields of Business Services, Community and Social Services, Construction and Real Estate, Engineering, and Manufacturing. A multi-method approach to data collection was adopted to achieve triangulation: the quantitative survey data were analysed statistically and are interpreted partly by reference to qualitative data elicited from a focus group interview with participating subjects and five individual case study subjects who kept a written record of their language use over a single typical working week. Results indicate that English continues to function as the unmarked language option for internal and external written communication in both the public and private sectors of the local economy. Chinese professionals who work for foreign-owned organisations in Hong Kong make greater use of English in written communication than do their counterparts in Hong Kong-owned companies. Professionals who work for large Hong Kong concerns manifest a slightly greater need to read or write in English than those who work for small local companies. In terms of spoken communication, Cantonese emerges clearly as the unmarked language option for intra-ethnic communication in informal situations.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781073245093Subjects--Topical Terms:

556422
Communication.
Subjects--Index Terms:

CantoneseIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

Communication in the professional workplace in post-colonial Hong Kong : = The roles and statuses of Chinese and English.
LDR:03487ntm a22004217 4500 001 1152698
005 20241209114635.5
006 m o d
007 cr mn ---uuuuu
008 250605s2001 xx obm 000 0 eng d
020 $a 9781073245093
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAIU150318
035 $a (MiAaPQ)437921
035 $a AAIU150318
040 $a MiAaPQ $b eng $c MiAaPQ $d NTU
100 1 $a Green, Christopher Frank. $3 1479767
245 1 0 $a Communication in the professional workplace in post-colonial Hong Kong : $b The roles and statuses of Chinese and English.
264 0 $c 2001
300 $a 1 online resource (200 pages)
336 $a text $b txt $2 rdacontent
337 $a computer $b c $2 rdamedia
338 $a online resource $b cr $2 rdacarrier
500 $a Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: C.
500 $a Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
502 $a Thesis (D.Ed.)--University of Leicester (United Kingdom), 2001.
504 $a Includes bibliographical references
520 $a This study reports the findings of an investigation into the roles of English, standard written Chinese and Cantonese in the workplace in post-colonial Hong Kong. The study was motivated by the paucity of large-scale, broad-spectrum research into language use in workplace communication in Hong Kong. Previous studies, while helpful and suggestive, have tended either to focus on language use within a single profession, or are small-scale in scope. The findings of this study derive from a questionnaire survey of 3,019 subjects employed in both the public and private sectors and by Hong Kong-owned and foreign-owned organisations. Subjects mostly held junior rank within their employing organisations and were drawn from large, medium-sized and small employing concerns within the five broad professional fields of Business Services, Community and Social Services, Construction and Real Estate, Engineering, and Manufacturing. A multi-method approach to data collection was adopted to achieve triangulation: the quantitative survey data were analysed statistically and are interpreted partly by reference to qualitative data elicited from a focus group interview with participating subjects and five individual case study subjects who kept a written record of their language use over a single typical working week. Results indicate that English continues to function as the unmarked language option for internal and external written communication in both the public and private sectors of the local economy. Chinese professionals who work for foreign-owned organisations in Hong Kong make greater use of English in written communication than do their counterparts in Hong Kong-owned companies. Professionals who work for large Hong Kong concerns manifest a slightly greater need to read or write in English than those who work for small local companies. In terms of spoken communication, Cantonese emerges clearly as the unmarked language option for intra-ethnic communication in informal situations.
533 $a Electronic reproduction. $b Ann Arbor, Mich. : $c ProQuest, $d 2024
538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web
650 4 $a Communication. $3 556422
650 4 $a Asian studies. $3 1179577
653 $a Cantonese
653 $a Chinese
653 $a English
653 $a Hong Kong
653 $a Intra-ethnic communication
653 $a Postcolonial
655 7 $a Electronic books. $2 local $3 554714
690 $a 0342
690 $a 0459
690 $a 0703
710 2 $a ProQuest Information and Learning Co. $3 1178819
710 2 $a University of Leicester (United Kingdom). $3 1479768
773 0 $t Dissertations Abstracts International $g 70-12C.
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=U150318 $z click for full text (PQDT)