ABSTRACT
The data for the analysis of features of Hong Kong English (HKE) is primarily derived from an open-answer question on the online survey across all four years of the survey (2014–2017). The responses were coded in three ways. First, to understand the attitudes the participants had towards features of HKE as well as the language ideologies they held about various features. Second, each comment was further classified into different features of HKE. Seven distinctive categories emerged from this coding: Accent, Stress, Tone, Grammar, Discourse Particles, Vocabulary, and Descriptive. Finally, the responses within each feature category were categorized into different sub-categories to examine which aspects of each feature the participants felt were associated with HKE. The data was also analyzed by gender to determine whether women or men made more positive comments about features of HKE and whether there were any changes across time for either women or men.
