ISBN:
9789027272133
,
9027272131
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (ix, 322 pages)
,
illustrations.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Studies in world language problems 4 1572-1183
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Politics of English
DDC:
306.4495
Keywords:
English language Political aspects
;
Asia
;
English language Variation
;
Asia
;
English language Usage
;
Asia
;
Language and culture Asia
;
English language Foreign countries
;
Asia
;
English language Usage
;
Language and culture
;
English language
;
English language Variation
;
English language Political aspects
;
English language ; Usage
;
English language ; Variation
;
Language and culture
;
English language ; Political aspects
;
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Linguistics ; Sociolinguistics
;
English language ; Foreign countries
;
Asia
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This volume brings together contributions that explore the increasingly important roles that English plays in Asia, including its contribution to economic growth, national imaginaries and creative writing. These are issues that are political in a broad sense, but the diversity of Asian contexts also means that the social, political and cultural ramifications of the spread of English into Asia will have to be understood in relation to the challenges facing specific societies. The chapters in the book collectively illustrate this diversity by focusing on countries from South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific. Each country has two contributions devoted to it: one paper provides an overview of the country's language policy and its positioning of English, and another provides a critical discussion of creative expressions involving the use of English. Taken together, the papers in the volume detail the most recent developments concerning the politics of English in Asia
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
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