Azirah Hashim, Gerhard Leitner

English in Southeast Asia and ASEAN (eBook, ePUB)

Transformation of Language Habitats

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

English in Southeast Asia and ASEAN embeds English in its various regional Southeast Asian and political ASEAN language habitats.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351590273
• Artikelnr.: 60428224

Autorenporträt

Azirah Hashim is a Professor in the English Language Department, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, University of Malaya and was, until recently, Executive Director of the Asia-Europe Institute and Director of the Centre for ASEAN Regionalism.

Gerhard Leitner is a Professor in the Institut für Englische Philologie at the Freie Universität Berlin. He is a specialist of varieties of English in South and Southeast Asia, and Australia, as well as of English as a global language. He has been Visiting Professor in Malaysia, Singapore, India, China and Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

List of maps
List of abbreviations
Preface
Chapter One: English and local languages in Southeast Asia and ASEAN
Chapter Two: The transformation of local language habitats
Chapter Three: History of English in Southeast Asia
Chapter Four: Texture and Features of English
Chapter Five: Language contact and the development of English in Southeast
Asia
Chapter Six: English in specific domains
Chapter Seven: English as a Lingua Franca in ASEAN
Chapter Eight: Language policy and language education
Chapter Nine: Future of English and future challenges
References
Index

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List of maps

List of abbreviations

Preface

Chapter One: English and local languages in Southeast Asia and ASEAN

Chapter Two: The transformation of local language habitats

Chapter Three: History of English in Southeast Asia

Chapter Four: Texture and Features of English

Chapter Five: Language contact and the development of English in Southeast Asia

Chapter Six: English in specific domains

Chapter Seven: English as a Lingua Franca in ASEAN

Chapter Eight: Language policy and language education

Chapter Nine: Future of English and future challenges

References

Index

Rezensionen

This volume on the development and roles of English in South East Asia and ASEAN is unique and timely as English has evolved in leaps and bounds since the first British colony of Penang was established in 1786. This valuable contribution weaves and explains the complex web of growth of the language over a quarter of a millennium. English has an exciting role in ASEAN and if you have even the minutest interest in the role of English in ASEAN as a scholar, entrepreneur or student you should grab this unputdownable book now!

Lim Beng Soon, Singapore University of Social Sciences