Azirah Hashim, Gerhard Leitner

Gebundenes Buch

English in Southeast Asia and ASEAN

Transformation of Language Habitats

Beschreibung

English in Southeast Asia and ASEAN embeds English in its various regional Southeast Asian and political ASEAN language habitats.

Autor

Azirah Hashim is a Professor in the English Language Department, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, University of Malaya and was, until recently, Executive Director of the Asia-Europe Institute and Director of the Centre for ASEAN Regionalism. Gerhard Leitner is a Professor in the Institut für Englische Philologie at the Freie Universität Berlin. He is a specialist of varieties of English in South and Southeast Asia, and Australia, as well as of English as a global language. He has been Visiting Professor in Malaysia, Singapore, India, China and Australia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9781138105300
• ISBN-10: 1138105309
• Artikelnr.: 59992729

Rezensionen

This volume on the development and roles of English in South East Asia and ASEAN is unique and timely as English has evolved in leaps and bounds since the first British colony of Penang was established in 1786. This valuable contribution weaves and explains the complex web of growth of the language over a quarter of a millennium. English has an exciting role in ASEAN and if you have even the minutest interest in the role of English in ASEAN as a scholar, entrepreneur or student you should grab this unputdownable book now!

Lim Beng Soon, Singapore University of Social Sciences