The typology of Asian Englishes / edited by Lisa Lim, Nikolas Gisborne.
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 transmissio...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2011.
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| Series: | Benjamins current topics ;
v. 33. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 120 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027284532 9027284539 9027202524 9789027202529 9781283314756 1283314754 |