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Language Policy and Planning in Hong Kong*

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Robert Keith Johnson
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Hong Kong has a population of 5,902,100 people crowded into its land area of 1076 sq. kms. In broad terms, 98 percent of its population are Chinese.1 They speak Cantonese among themselves and English in dealing with expatriates. The expatriate community, once predominantly British, now reflects the full range of national and multinational commercial and banking interests, including those of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Taiwan. Luke and Richards (1982) described Hong Kong as having diglossia without bilingualism.

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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 14 , March 1994 , pp. 177 - 199
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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