The Handbook of Asian Englishes

by Bolton, Kingsley; Botha, Werner; Kirkpatrick, Andy

• ISBN13: 9781118791806
• ISBN10: 1118791800
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-10-06
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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.

Winner of the 2021 PROSE Humanities Category for Language & Linguistics

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

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