THE HANDBOOK OF ASIAN ENGLISHES

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

Auteur

Kingsley Bolton is Professor Emeritus at Stockholm University, Sweden, and Honorary Professor at the Social Sciences Research Centre at The University of Hong Kong. He has published widely on English linguistics and the sociolinguistics of the Asian region. He is Co-Editor of the journal World Englishes and Executive Director of the International Association for World Englishes. Werner Botha is Senior Lecturer at Flinders University, Australia. His current research focuses on language variation, educational linguistics, and the sociolinguistics of English in higher education in Singapore, South Africa, and China. He is Assistant Editor of the Wiley journal World Englishes. Andy Kirkpatrick is Professor in Linguistics at Griffith University, Australia, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He is author of World Englishes: Implications for ELT and International Communication (2007) and Is English an Asian Language? (2020).

Contenu

Notes on Contributors ix

1 Asian Englishes Today 1
Kingsley Bolton, Werner Botha, and Andy Kirkpatrick

Part I The History and Development of Asian Englishes 13

2 Asia before English 15
Alexander R. Coupe and Frantiek Kratochvíl

3 The Statistics of English across Asia 49
Kingsley Bolton and John Bacon-Shone

4 English and Language Policies in East and Southeast Asia 81
Andy Kirkpatrick and Anthony J. Liddicoat

5 English in Asian Schools 107
Ee-Ling Low

6 English in Asian Universities 133
Kingsley Bolton and Werner Botha

7 The Features of Asian Englishes: Morphosyntax 169
Werner Botha and Tobias Bernaisch

8 The Features of Asian Englishes: Phonology 189
Ishamina Athirah Gardiner and David Deterding

9 The Lexicography of Asian Englishes 209
James Lambert

Part II English in Outer Circle Asian Societies 241

10 Indian English 243
S. N. Sridhar

11 Pakistani English 279
Tariq Rahman

12 Bangladeshi English 297
M. Obaidul Hamid and MD. Mahmudul Hasan

13 Nepali English 317
Ram Ashish Giri

14 Sri Lankan English 337
Tanya N. I. Ekanayaka

15 Myanmar English 355
Khin Khin Aye

16 Malaysian English 373
Azirah Hashim

17 Brunei English 399
James Mclellan

18 Singapore English 419
Francesco Cavallaro, Bee Chin Ng, and Ying-Ying Tan

19 Hong Kong English 449
Kingsley Bolton, John Bacon-Shone, and Kang Kwong Luke

20 Philippine English 479
Isabel Pefianco Martin

Part III English in Expanding Circle Asian Societies 501

21 English in China 503
Kingsley Bolton, Werner Botha, and Wei Zhang

22 English in Macau 529
Werner Botha and Andrew Moody

23 English in Taiwan 547
Peter Iori Kobayashi

24 English in Japan 569
Philip Seargeant

25 English in Korea 585
Jamie Shinhee Lee

26 English in Indonesia 605
Allan F. Lauder

27 English in Thailand 629
Sawitri Pechapan-Hammond

28 English in Cambodia 649
phen H. Moore and Suksiri Bounchan

29 English in Laos 667
Lynda Achren and Daravone Kittiphanh

30 English in Vietnam 683
Peter Sundkvist and Xuan Nhat Chi Mai Nguyen

Part IV New Frontiers of Research 705

31 Globalization and Asian Englishes 707
Mario Saraceni

32 English as an ASEAN Lingua Franca 725
Andy Kirkpatrick

33 Corpus Linguistics and Asian Englishes 741
Joybrato Mukherjee and Tobias Bernaisch

34 English in Asian Popular Culture 763
Andrew Moody

35 Asian Literatures in English 787
Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Christopher B. Patterson, Y-Dang Troeung, and Weihsin Gui

36 English and Asian Religions 813
Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew

37 English in Asian Linguistic Landscapes 833
Kingsley Bolton, Werner Botha, and Siu-Lun Lee

38 English in Asian Legal Systems 863
Richard Powell

Index 887