Communicating with Asia: introduction Gerhard Leitner, Azirah Hashim and Hans-Georg Wolf; Part I. English in Selected Regional and National Habitats with a Glance at the Role of Outward-Bound Communication Needs: 1. The development of English in Pakistan Tariq Rahman; 2. English for Japan: in the cultural context of the East-Asian expanding circle Nobuyuki Hino; 3. Convergence and divergence of English in Malaysia and Singapore Ee-Ling Low and Rachel Tan Siew Kuang; 4. Indian English prosody Pramod Pandey; 5. Charting the endonormative stabilization of Singapore English Tan Siew Imm; 6. Arabic in contact with English and Malay in Malaysia Azirah Hashim and Gerhard Leitner; 7. Preposition stranding and pied-piping in Philippine English: a corpus-based study Danilo T. Dayag; 8. The Americanization of the phonology of Asian Englishes: evidence from Singapore Ying-Ying Tan; 9.-
Summary:
'Communicating With Asia' is essential in today's global world. This volume explores Asia from both a communicative and linguistic perspective. In today's global world, where Asia is an increasing area of focus, it is vital to explore what it means to 'understand' Asian cultures through English and other languages. This volume presents new research on English in Asia, alongside Mandarin, Cantonese, Hindi-Urdu, Malay, and Russian and other languages. Communicating with Asia brings together an international team of leading researchers to discuss South, South-East, East and Central Asia, and explore Mandarin, Cantonese, Hindi-Urdu, Malay, and Russian as major languages. The volume locates English inside a number of national, regional or lingua franca contexts and illustrates the way it develops in such contact situations. Local dynamics affecting languages in contact and cultural links of languages are dealt with, such as educational-political issues and tensions between conflicting norms. In today's global world, where the continent is an increasing area of focus, it is vital to explore what it means to 'understand' Asian cultures through English and other languages. This important new study will be of interest to students and researchers working in the fields of regional studies, English as a global language, Asian languages and cultural studies
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