The typology of Asian Englishes

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Label

The typology of Asian Englishes

Statement of responsibility

edited by Lisa Lim, Nikolas Gisborne

Contributor

• Lim, Lisa
• Gisborne, Nikolas, 1966-
• Gisborne, Nikolas, 1966-

Subject

• English language -- Asia
• English language -- Social aspects -- Asia
• English language -- Study and teaching -- Asia
• English language -- Variation -- Asia

Language

eng

Summary

When considering the structure of New Englishes which have evolved in - multilingual, mostly post-colonial - contexts of Asia (thus, Asian Englishes), the significant factors to be considered are: 1) the variety/ies of the English lexifier that entered the local context; 2) the nature of transmission of English to the local population; and 3) the local, i.e. substrate, languages of the community in which the New English emerges. This third factor is the focus of the five papers in this volume: they investigate the structure of Asian varieties of English by exploring the relationship between th

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• Benjamins current topics, 33

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

427/.95

Index

index present

LC call number

PE3501

LC item number

.T97 2011eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• standards specifications
• bibliography