Global Englishes in Asian Contexts: Current and Future Debates

✍ Scribed by Kumiko Murata, Jennifer Jenkins

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 246
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume explores the current issues in World Englishes/ELF specifically in relation to the Asian context. The international contributors are all prominent names in the field, taking on a wide variety of issues both in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, and address not only the current state of affairs, but the future too.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
List of Contributors......Page 11
1 Introduction: Global Englishes from Global Perspectives......Page 14
Part I: Understanding Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in Asia......Page 28
2 Dimensions of Understanding in Cross-Cultural Communication......Page 30
3 Accommodation and the Idiom Principle in English as a Lingua Franca......Page 39
4 Exploring Attitudes towards English as a Lingua Franca in the East Asian Context......Page 53
Part II: Cultural Identity, Ideology and Attitudes in Englishes in Asia......Page 70
5 Pygmalion in Singapore: From Cockney to Singlish......Page 72
6 Japanese English for EIAL: What it should be like and how much has been introduced......Page 86
7 Characteristics of Korea English as a Glocalized Variety......Page 107
Part III: Englishes in Asian Academic and Business Contexts......Page 122
8 Academic Writing in World Englishes: The Asian Context......Page 124
9 Standards and Linguistic Realities of English in the Malaysian Workplace......Page 144
10 English in Asian Advertising and the Teaching of World Englishes......Page 167
Part IV: The Future of Englishes: A Paradigm Shift?......Page 186
11 Asian Englishes in the Asian Age: Contexts and Challenges......Page 188
12 Plurilithic Englishes: Towards a 3D Model......Page 207
13 The Future of English: Beyond the Kachruvian Three Circle Model?......Page 221
C......Page 240
E......Page 241
H......Page 242
L......Page 243
N......Page 244
T......Page 245
Y......Page 246