Cargando…
The politics of English : South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific /
This volume brings together contributions that explore the increasingly important roles that English plays in Asia, including its contribution to economic growth, national imaginaries and creative writing. These are issues that are political in a broad sense, but the diversity of Asian contexts also...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2013.
|
| Colección: | Studies in world language problems ;
4. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Language policies, language ideologies and local language practices
- The politics of Hinglish
- Part I. South Asia. Globalization and multilingualism: text types in the linguistic ecology of Delhi
- Kaduva of privileged power, instrument of rural empowerment? : the politics of English in Sri Lanka
- The interface of language, literature and politics in Sri Lanka : a paradigm for ex-colonies of Britain
- Part II. Southeast Asia. Governing English in Singapore : some challenges for Singapore's language policy
- Uncertain locale: The dialectics of space and the cultural politics of English in Singapore
- The encroachment of English in Malaysian cultural expression
- Negotiating bilingual identities in the Malay community
- The grip of English and Philippine language policy
- Nimble tongues : Philippine English and the feminization of labour
- Part III. Asia Pacific. English vs. English conversation : language teaching in modern Japan
- Language policy and practice in English loanwords in Japanese
- English speakers in Korea : a short literary history
- English, class and neoliberalism in South Korea
- Conclusion.