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SUPPORT THE CHILDREN

Background

About 

We are a group of Year 3 students who are majoring in Language and Communication in The University of Hong Kong. Taking UNESCO's International Mother Language Day as inspiration, we are preparing to look into the communicative practices of  Filipinos in Hong Kong society. This website allows us to use the theoretical knowledge and methods we learned in the course LCOM3001 Cultural dimensions of language and communication to study and analyze the influence of local culture on the linguistic practice and situations of the minority group 'Filipinos', including residential Filipinos and domestic helpers.

 

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Language, identity and society

-Build up a real multicultural society in Hong Kong !

In-depth interviews with 5 residential Filipinos and 3 Filipino domestic helpers in Hong Kong 

Interviews

Data Analysis

As Hong Kong people, we are no strangers to  Filipinos.  It is not uncommon for us to see them gathering at weekends in Central. According to the statistics released by Census and Statistics Department, there are over a hundred thousand Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong. However, have you ever thought about the residential Filipinos in Hong Kong? What do they do in Hong Kong? Since they hold different occupations and occupy different social status, we would like to know if there is a contrast of language preferences between these two groups of Filipinos.



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To know more about the residential Filipinos in Hong Kong, we paid a bar in Central a visit where the employees were mostly Filipinos. Luckily, we interviewed five Filipinos.  Some of them were young while some of them had already started their own families here in Hong Kong. Meanwhile, we found one domestic helper who introduced us two more. Therefore, we interviewed three domestic helpers in total. We first set out some basic questions, then, during the interview, we made follow-up questions according to their various situations.  It was fun to hear about their stories. Do you want to meet them too?

 

 

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After interviewing 8 Filipinos from two different groups, not only do we know more about their backgrounds and lives in Hong Kong, we also know more about the various aspects of their languages. We learnt about their feelings towards the various languages they use daily, their shift from one language to another, how they construct their identities using languages, etc. We have put our findings into four categories, namely (i) Language Preference and Shift, (ii) Language Attitude, (iii) Language and Power, and (iv) Language and Identity. 







 

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