Asian Englishes - Beyond The Canon

The Asian region comprises the largest English-knowing population in the world: the estimated users of English in India and China alone comprise over 533 million people. This book provides crucial reading for students and researchers of world Englishes in the Asian context. It is an insightful and provocative study of the users and uses of English in Asia, its acculturation, nativization and innovative dimension of Asian creativity. It contextualizes a variety of theoretical, applied and ideological issues with refreshing interpretations and re-evaluations. The issues are specifically addressed to Asia but have relevance to all English-using students and researchers. The book also includes an extensive bibliography representing pedagogical, theoretical and historical resources. This volume can be used as a text or a resource book for graduate and undergraduate courses in English studies, Asian Englishes, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, critical linguistics, post-colonial studies and ELT.

About the author

Braj B. Kachru is Center for Advanced Study Professor of Linguistics and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Product details

• Authors: Kachru Braj, Braj Kachru, Braj B. Kachru
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.03.2005
• EAN: 9789622096653
• ISBN: 978-962-209-665-3
• No. of pages: 333
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Asian Englishes Today; Asian Englishes Today
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous