Asian Englishes: Beyond the Canon

List of illustrations

List of illustrations Maps Map of Greater Asia xxiv 3.1 Map of South Asia 31 Figure 2.1 Three Concentric Circles of Asian Englishes 14 Tables 2.1 India’s English-language press 16 2.2 Functional domains of English across the Three Circles 17 3.1 The main languages of South Asia 30 3.2 Indian faculty preference for models of English for instruction 56 3.3 Indian graduate students’ attitude towards various models of 56 English and ranking of models according to preferences 3.4 Indian graduate students’ self-labelling of the variety of their 56 English 4.1 Courses in English studies 84 4.2 Summary of TESL programmes in the USA 87 4.3 Asia in Japan’s trade 92 4.4 Japanese tourists visiting Asia 92 4.5 Japanese tourists visiting Asia and USA 92 5.1 Parallel lexical sets 105 9.1 Examples of endangered languages in South Asia 167 9.2 Number of languages spoken in each Indian state 172 9.3 Number of languages spoken in Union Territories 172 9.4 Percentage of minority language speakers by states and Union 172 Territories 11.1 China’s English proficiency distribution 206 11.2 Asia’s English-using populations 208 11.3 The architects of knowledge 235 ...