Macau English: status, functions and forms
@article{Moody2008MacauES, title={Macau English: status, functions and forms}, author={Andrew Moody}, journal={English Today}, year={2008}, volume={24}, pages={3 - 15} }
ABSTRACT The sociolinguistics of a small community of English users. A journalist for a local Macau English-language newspaper recently wrote to me and several other friends and asked us to describe Macau with one word. Many words came to mind: historic, multicultural, casinos, growth, etc.; but the word I chose to suggest does not necessarily come to mind until one has lived here, small. Indeed, Macau is a very small community. At the end of September 2007, the resident population was 531,400…
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