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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457750403321

Titolo

The typology of Asian Englishes [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Lisa Lim, Nikolas Gisborne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011

ISBN

1-283-31475-4

9786613314758

90-272-8453-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (128 p.)

Collana

Benjamins current topics; v. 33

Altri autori (Persone)

LimLisa

GisborneNikolas <1966->

Disciplina

427/.95

Soggetti

English language - Asia

English language - Variation - Asia

English language - Social aspects - Asia

English language - Study and teaching - Asia

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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