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The typology of Asian Englishes / edited by Lisa Lim, Nikolas Gisborne.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Benjamins current topics; v. 33
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Asia.
- English language.
- English language--Variation--Asia.
- English language--Social aspects--Asia.
- English language--Study and teaching--Asia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (128 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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
- Contents:
- The Typology of Asian Englishes; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; The typology of Asian Englishes; The Asian typology of English; Aspects of the morphosyntactic typology of Hong Kong English; Typological diversity in New Englishes; Thai English; Revisiting English prosody; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613314758
- 9781283314756
- 1283314754
- 9789027284532
- 9027284539
- OCLC:
- 757261186
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