English in Southeast Asia

Features, policy and language in use
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-272-4902-9
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band G42, 394 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 870 g

Reihe: Varieties of English Around the World

This volume provides a first systematic, comprehensive account of English in Southeast Asia (SEA) based on current research by leading scholars in the field. The volume first provides a systematic account of the linguistic features across all sub-varieties found within each country. It also has a section dedicated to the historical context and language planning policies to provide a background to understanding the development of the linguistic features covered in Part I and, finally, the vibrancy of the sociolinguistic and pragmatic realities that govern actual language in use in a wide variety of domains such as the law, education, popular culture, electronic media and actual pragmatic encounters are also given due coverage. This volume also includes an extensive bibliography of works on English in SEA, thus providing a useful and valuable resource for language researchers, linguists, classroom educators, policy makers and anyone interested in the topic of English in SEA or World Englishes as a whole.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Low, Ee-Ling

Hashim, Azirah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachkontaktforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Ee-Ling Low and Azirah Hashim
Chapter 1. Theoretical issues
Andy Kirkpatrick
Part I. Features
Chapter 2. Singapore English
Ee-Ling Low
Chapter 3. Malaysian English
Azirah Hashim and Rachel Siew Kuang Tan
Chapter 4. Brunei English
James McLellan and Noor Azam Haji-Othman
Chapter 5. Philippine English
Danilo Dayag
Chapter 6. Thai English
Wannapa Trakulkasemsuk
Chapter 7. Hong Kong English
Tony T.N. Hung
Part II. Policy (Historical context & language planning)
Chapter 8. The development of English in Singapore: Language policy and planning in nation building
Lubna Alsagoff
Chapter 9. Pragmatics of maintaining English in Malaysia’s education system
Asmah Haji Omar
Chapter 10. Language planning in its historical context in Brunei Darussalam
Gary M. Jones
Chapter 11. Diffusion and directions: English language policy in the Philippines
Isabel Pefianco Martin
Chapter 12. The effect of policy on English language teaching at secondary schools in Thailand
Pornapit Darasawang and Richard Watson Todd
Chapter 13. Language policy and planning in Hong Kong: The historical context and current realities
Kingsley Bolton
Part III. Language in use
Chapter 14. English in Southeast Asian law
Richard Powell
Chapter 15. The view from below: Code-switching and the influence of “substrate” languages in the development of Southeast Asian Englishes
James McLellan
Chapter 16. Curriculum and world Englishes: Additive language learning as SLA Paradigm
James D'Angelo
Chapter 17. English in Southeast Asian pop culture
Andrew Moody
Chapter 18. Language use in the construction of interpersonal relationships: Electronic English in Malaysia
Norizah Hassan, Azirah Hashim and Adriana Sufun Phillip
Chapter 19. Transfers of politeness strategies: Some preliminary findings
Beng Soon Lim
Part IV. Bibliography
Chapter 20. Works on English in Southeast Asia
Ee-Ling Low, Azirah Hashim, Ao Ran and Adriana Sufun Phillip
Author index
Subject index