Asian Englishes

In recent decades, the cultural and linguistic legacies of the colonial era have been superseded by the globalization of English through the international mass media, satellite television, computers, and internet communications. In many societies that were previously the colonies of Anglophone powers, 'new Englishes' have appeared, visible most dramatically in the 'new literatures' of India, Singapore, the Philippines, etc. However, many of these new Englishes are much older in provenance than many linguists have previously recognised. The process of British and American imperial expansion in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries took the English language to many parts of the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan. Indeed, it is typically in these initial stages of political, historical, and cultural contact that we can identify the dynamics of 'languages in contact', and the origins of 'World Englishes', in a range of settings, including South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia. This unique collection will bring together a range of sources reprinted in facsimile, charting the spread of English throughout Asia and the development of 'Asian Englishes' from the eigthteenth century through to the 1960s. The kinds of text-types reprinted may include:travel literature, missionary writings, articles by colonial officials, dictionaries, glossaries, legal documents, policy statements, textbooks etcMarket Information.Bolton, Kingsley is the author of 'Asian Englishes', published 2007 under ISBN 9780415374866 and ISBN 0415374863.