The first volume of its kind, focusing on the sociolinguistic and socio-political issues surrounding Asian Englishes
The Handbook of Asian Englishes provides wide-ranging coverage of the historical and cultural context, contemporary dynamics, and linguistic features of English in use throughout the Asian region. This first-of-its-kind volume offers a wide-ranging exploration of the English language throughout nations in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia. Contributions by a team of internationally-recognized linguists and scholars of Asian Englishes and Asian languages survey existing works and review new and emerging areas of research in the field.
Edited by internationally renowned scholars in the field and structured in four parts, this Handbook explores the status and functions of English in the educational institutions, legal systems, media, popular cultures, and religions of diverse Asian societies. In addition to examining nation-specific topics, this comprehensive volume presents articles exploring pan-Asian issues such as English in Asian schools and universities, English and language policies in the Asian region, and the statistics of English across Asia. Up-to-date research addresses the impact of English as an Asian lingua franca, globalization and Asian Englishes, the dynamics of multilingualism, and more.
- Examines linguistic history, contemporary linguistic issues, and English in the Outer and Expanding Circles of Asia
- Focuses on the rapidly-growing complexities of English throughout Asia
- Includes reviews of the new frontiers of research in Asian Englishes, including the impact of globalization and popular culture
- Presents an innovative survey of Asian Englishes in one comprehensive volume
Serving as an important contribution to fields such as contact linguistics, World Englishes, sociolinguistics, and Asian language studies, The Handbook of Asian Englishes is an invaluable reference resource for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and instructors across these areas.
Kingsley Bolton is Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Professor Emeritus at Stockholm University, Sweden. He is Co-Editor of the journal World Englishes, Executive Director of the International Association for World Englishes, and a Founding Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy for the Humanities.
Werner Botha is Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His published research includes articles on language variation, educational linguistics, and the sociolinguistics of English in higher education in Singapore and China.
Andy Kirkpatrick is Professor in Linguistics at Griffith University, Australia, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He is Editor-in-Chief of the book series Multilingual Education, author of World Englishes: Implications for ELT and International Communication (2007) and Editor of Routledge Handbook of World Englishes (2010).
Introduction
Kingsley Bolton, Werner Botha, and Andy Kirkpatrick
Part I The History and Development of English in Asia
1 Asia Before English
Alexander Coupe and Frantisek Kratochvil
2 The Statistics of English Across Asia
John Bacon-Shone and Kingsley Bolton
3 English and Language Policies in the Asian Region
Andy Kirkpatrick and Antony Liddicoat
4 English in Asian Schools
Ee Ling Low
5 English in Asian Universities
Kingsley Bolton and Werner Botha
6 The Features of Asian Englishes: Morpho-Syntax
Werner Botha and Tobias Bernaisch
7 The Features of Asian Englishes: Phonology
David Deterding and Ishamina Athira
8 The Lexicography of Asian Englishes
James Lambert
Part II English in Outer Circle Asian Societies
9 Indian English
Shikaripur N. Sridhar and Kamal K. Sridhar
10 Pakistani English
Tariq Rahman
11 Bangladesh English
M. Obaid Hamid and Md. Mahmudul Hasan
12 Sri Lankan English
Tanya Ekanayaka
13 Malaysian English
Azirah Hashim
14 Brunei English
James McLellan
15 Singapore English
Francesco Cavallaro, Bee Chin Ng, and Ying Ying Tan
16 Hong Kong English
Kingsley Bolton, John Bacon-Shone, and Kang Kwong Luke
17 Philippine English
Isabel Martin
Part III English in Asia's Expanding Circle Societies
Expanding Circle Societies in East Asia
18 English in China
Kingsley Bolton, Werner Botha, and Wei Zhang
19 English in Macau
Werner Botha and Andrew Moody
20 English in Taiwan
Peter Kobayashi
21 English in Japan
Philip Seargeant
22 English in Korea
Jamie Lee
23 English in Nepal
Ram A. Giri
Expanding Circle Societies in Southeast Asia
24 English in Indonesia
Allan Lauder
25 English in Thailand
Sawitri Hammond
26 English in Myanmar
Khin Khin Aye
27 English in Cambodia
Stephen Moore and Suksiri Bounchan
28 English in Laos
Lynda Achren and Daravone Kittiphanh
29 English in Vietnam
Peter Sundkvist and Xuan Nhat Chi Mai Nguyen
Part IV New Frontiers of Research
30 Globalisation and Asian Englishes
Mario Saraceni
31 English as an Asian Lingua Franca
Andy Kirkpatrick
32 Corpus Linguistics and Asian Englishes
Joybrato Muhkerjee and Tobias Bernaisch
33 English and Asian Popular Culture
Andrew Moody
34 Asian literature in English
Shirley Lim, Christopher Patterson, Y-Dang Troeung, and Weihsin Gui
35 English and Asian religions
Phyllis Chew
36 Asian linguistic landscapes
Kingsley Bolton and Werner Botha
37 English in Asian legal systems
Richard Powell
