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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Christopher Hutton , Kingsley BoltonPublisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Imprint: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd ISBN: 9781849046626ISBN 10: 184904662 Pages: 492 Publication Date: 25 April 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews'Cantonese popular literature, comic books and movies- in fact, everyday life - is incomprehensible without some understanding of slang. [...] A Dictionary of Cantonese Slang is the one and only, covering everything from common colloquialisms to triad trash-talking.' - Professor Frank Dikotter, author of Mao's Great Famine; 'A very significant contribution to the field of Chinese lexicography. [...] Will shed much light on the kind of Cantonese speech that many people know about, talk about, and use in their daily conversations yet have not considered worthy of serious scholarship.' - Robert S. Bauer, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Author InformationChristopher Hutton studied linguistics at the University of Oxford and Columbia University in New York. He has taught Yiddish Studies at the University of Texas in Austin and general and English linguistics in Hong Kong. He is the author of The Type-token Relation in Linguistics Theory and Linguistics and the Third Reich. Kingsley Bolton is Chair Professor of English and Head of the English Department at City University of Hong Kong. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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