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Is English an Asian Language? (Paperback)
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Is English an Asian Language? (Paperback)
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Asia is now home to some 800 million multilingual speakers of
English, more than the total number of native English speakers, and
how they use English is continuously evolving and changing to
reflect their cultural backgrounds and everyday experiences. Can
English, therefore, be considered an Asian language? Drawing upon
the Asian Corpus of English, this book will be the first
comprehensive account of the roles, uses and features of English in
Asia, encompassing several different varieties of Asian English.
Chapters cover the distinctive linguistic features of English in
different settings, such as in law, religion and popular culture,
as well as the use of local rhetorical, pragmatic and cultural
styles and its use as a lingua franca among Asian multilinguals. It
will also examine the role of English in education - from primary
through to higher education - and consider the implications of this
for other languages of Asia.
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