ISBN: 9781316500774 - is english an asian language? (5 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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.…

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorAndy Kirkpatrick is Professor in the Department of Languages, Humanities and Social Sciences at Griffith University. Publications include World Englishes (Cambridge 2007), English as a Lingua Franca in ASEAN (2010), Tr.