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<p>Notes on Contributors ix</p> <p>1 Asian Englishes Today 1<br /><i>Kingsley Bolton, Werner Botha, and Andy Kirkpatrick</i></p> <p><b>Part I The History and Development of Asian Englishes 13</b></p> <p>2 Asia before English 15<br /><i>Alexander R. Coupe and František Kratochvíl</i></p> <p>3 The Statistics of English across Asia 49<br /><i>Kingsley Bolton and John Bacon-Shone</i></p> <p>4 English and Language Policies in East and Southeast Asia 81<br /><i>Andy Kirkpatrick and Anthony J. Liddicoat</i></p> <p>5 English in Asian Schools 107<br /><i>Ee-Ling Low</i></p> <p>6 English in Asian Universities 133<br /><i>Kingsley Bolton and Werner Botha</i></p> <p>7 The Features of Asian Englishes: Morphosyntax 169<br /><i>Werner Botha and Tobias Bernaisch</i></p> <p>8 The Features of Asian Englishes: Phonology 189<br /><i>Ishamina Athirah Gardiner and David Deterding</i></p> <p>9 The Lexicography of Asian Englishes 209<br /><i>James Lambert</i></p> <p><b>Part II English in Outer Circle Asian Societies 241</b></p> <p>10 Indian English 243<br /><i>S. N. Sridhar</i></p> <p>11 Pakistani English 279<br /><i>Tariq Rahman</i></p> <p>12 Bangladeshi English 297<br /><i>M. Obaidul Hamid and MD. Mahmudul Hasan</i></p> <p>13 Nepali English 317<br /><i>Ram Ashish Giri</i></p> <p>14 Sri Lankan English 337<br /><i>Tanya N. I. Ekanayaka</i></p> <p>15 Myanmar English 355<br /><i>Khin Khin Aye</i></p> <p>16 Malaysian English 373<br /><i>Azirah Hashim</i></p> <p>17 Brunei English 399<br /><i>James Mclellan</i></p> <p>18 Singapore English 419<br /><i>Francesco Cavallaro, Bee Chin Ng, and Ying-Ying Tan</i></p> <p>19 Hong Kong English 449<br /><i>Kingsley Bolton, John Bacon-Shone, and Kang Kwong Luke</i></p> <p>20 Philippine English 479<br /><i>Isabel Pefianco Martin</i></p> <p><b>Part III English in Expanding Circle Asian Societies 501</b></p> <p>21 English in China 503<br /><i>Kingsley Bolton, Werner Botha, and Wei Zhang</i></p> <p>22 English in Macau 529<br /><i>Werner Botha and Andrew Moody</i></p> <p>23 English in Taiwan 547<br /><i>Peter Iori Kobayashi</i></p> <p>24 English in Japan 569<br /><i>Philip Seargeant</i></p> <p>25 English in Korea 585<br /><i>Jamie Shinhee Lee</i></p> <p>26 English in Indonesia 605<br /><i>Allan F. Lauder</i></p> <p>27 English in Thailand 629<br /><i>Sawitri Pechapan-Hammond</i></p> <p>28 English in Cambodia 649<br /><i>phen H. Moore and Suksiri Bounchan</i></p> <p>29 English in Laos 667<br /><i>Lynda Achren and Daravone Kittiphanh</i></p> <p>30 English in Vietnam 683<br /><i>Peter Sundkvist and Xuan Nhat Chi Mai Nguyen</i></p> <p><b>Part IV New Frontiers of Research 705</b></p> <p>31 Globalization and Asian Englishes 707<br /><i>Mario Saraceni</i></p> <p>32 English as an ASEAN Lingua Franca 725<br /><i>Andy Kirkpatrick</i></p> <p>33 Corpus Linguistics and Asian Englishes 741<br /><i>Joybrato Mukherjee and Tobias Bernaisch</i></p> <p>34 English in Asian Popular Culture 763<br /><i>Andrew Moody</i></p> <p>35 Asian Literatures in English 787<br /><i>Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Christopher B. Patterson, Y-Dang Troeung, and Weihsin Gui</i></p> <p>36 English and Asian Religions 813<br /><i>Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew</i></p> <p>37 English in Asian Linguistic Landscapes 833<br /><i>Kingsley Bolton, Werner Botha, and Siu-Lun Lee</i></p> <p>38 English in Asian Legal Systems 863<br /><i>Richard Powell</i></p> <p>Index 887</p>

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<p><b>Kingsley Bolton</b> is Professor Emeritus at Stockholm University, Sweden, and Honorary Professor at the Social Sciences Research Centre at The University of Hong Kong. He has published widely on English linguistics and the sociolinguistics of the Asian region. He is Co-Editor of the journal <i>World Englishes</i> and Executive Director of the International Association for World Englishes.</p> <p><b>Werner Botha</b> is Senior Lecturer at Flinders University, Australia. His current research focuses on language variation, educational linguistics, and the sociolinguistics of English in higher education in Singapore, South Africa, and China. He is Assistant Editor of the Wiley journal <i>World Englishes</i>.</p> <p><b>Andy Kirkpatrick</b> is Professor in Linguistics at Griffith University, Australia, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He is author of <i>World Englishes: Implications for ELT and International Communication</i> (2007) and <i>Is English an Asian Language</i>? (2020).</p>

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