Charmaine Kong

PhD-ing @unibern🇨🇭; sociocultural linguist & linguistic ethnographer from 🇭🇰. I write and I eat. 🍵

[Andre Joseph Theng @HipsterTheng]

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1/2 Just out in @EQUINOXPUB Sociolinguistic Studies - our ode to Hong Kong's Lamma Island. In the first linguistic study of the island, we consider Yung Shue Wan Main Street as a border zone between the urban and the rural.

[t @myetcetera]

[𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖] Our third review of Karen Cheung's 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐼𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝐶𝑖𝑡𝑦 (@penguinrandom, 2022), written by Luca Griseri: "it is in the local, the mundane and the forgotten that the questions that really matter".

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[Paul Meighan | Pòl Miadhachàin @PaulJMeighan]

Languages do not exist in a vacuum.
The view of languages as only being a “useful” tool for human communication is anthropocentric (human-centred), ableist (“useful” for whom?), and limiting.
Languages are also connected to knowledges, lands, ecosystems, and more than humans.