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A comprehensive account of how English is being used and reshaped by multilingual Asian speakers to fit their everyday needs.
List of contents
1. How English Came to Asia; 2. The Asian Corpus of English; 3. Asian Varieties of English vs English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in Asia; 4. What do Asian Multilinguals Talk About When Using English as a Lingua Franca?; 5. The transfer of Features and Communicative Strategies; 6. Borrowing Words and Writing Asian Englishes; 7. Non-Standard Forms in Asian Englishes and ELF; 8. English in Law, Religion and Popular Culture; 9. English as a Language of Education in Asia; 10. Implications for English Language Teaching in Asia; 11. Conclusion; References.
About the author
Andy Kirkpatrick is Professor in the Department of Languages, Humanities and Social Sciences at Griffith University. Publications include World Englishes (Cambridge 2007), English as a Lingua Franca in ASEAN (2010), Trilingual Education in Hong Kong's Primary Schools (2019) and The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Asian Varieties of English (2020).Wang Lixun is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong. Publications include Introduction to Language Studies (2011), Academic Writing in Language and Education Programmes (2011), Trilingual Education in Hong Kong Primary Schools (2019), and Identity, Motivation, and Multilingual Education in Asian Contexts (2020). He is co-editor of the Springer book series Multilingual Education.
Summary
Asian multilingual speakers are continuously adapting and reshaping English to reflect their varying needs. This book describes how new Asian varieties of English develop, how these reflect the cultural values of users and the types of topics Asian speakers talk about and the communicative strategies they adopt when using English.
Foreword
A comprehensive account of how English is being used and reshaped by multilingual Asian speakers to fit their everyday needs.
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'Kirkpatrick is teacher, researcher, and storyteller in Is English an Asian Language? The book is a must-read to scholars of English language studies not only of and in Asia, but also the rest of the world.' Isabel Pefianco Martin, Professor at the Department of English, Ateneo de Manila University
