Abstract

Wong offers a fascinating linguistic analysis of blogs in Hong Kong English (HKE), drawing on insights taken from the Corpus of Global Web-based English (GloWbE). Using an online corpus analysis interface, Wmatrix, Wong provides a reliable account of parts-of-speech categories and semantic domains that are statistically significant in the online blog postings retrieved from the Hong Kong segment of GloWbE, highlighting the linguistic variation of the HKE blog variety of digital discourse that has not been explored before.

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