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Acknowledgements The following chapters in this volume are revised, updated, and in some cases substantially rewritten versions of papers published earlier. The original titles have been altered to bring a thematic cohesiveness to this volume, and relevant latest references have been added. These papers first appeared in the sources listed below. Chapter 2: Bautista, Maria Lourdes S. (ed.) (1997) English Is an Asian Language: The Philippine Context. Proceedings of the Conference Held in Manila on August 2–3, 1996. NSW, Australia: The Macquarie Library Pty Ltd., The Macquarie Dictionary, Macquarie University, pp. 1–23. Title: ‘English as an Asian language’. Chapter 3: Burchfield, Robert (ed.) (1994) The Cambridge History of the English Language Vol. 5: English in Britain and Overseas: Origins and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 497–553. Title: ‘English in South Asia’. Chapter 4: Newbrook, Mark (ed.) (1966) English Is an Asian Language: The Thai Context. NSW, Australia: The Macquarie Library Pty Ltd., The Macquarie Dictionary, Macquarie University, pp. 1–20. Title: ‘Past imperfect: The other side of English in Asia’. Chapter 5: World Englishes (1994) 13–2, pp. 135–54. Title: ‘Englishization and contact linguistics’. Chapter 6: Chamberlain, Dick and Robert J. Baumgardner (eds.) (1988) ESP in the Classroom: Practice and Evaluation. Oxford: Modern English Publications in association with the British Council, pp. 9–28. Title: ‘ESP and non-native varieties of English: Towards a shift in paradigm’. Chapter 7: Hardgrave, Jr., Robert (ed.) (1998) Word as Mantra: The Art of Raja Rao. New Delhi: Katha in association with the Center for Asian Studies, the University of Texas at Austin, pp. 60–87. Title: ‘Raja Rao: Madhyama and mantra.’ Chapter 8: World Englishes (1993) 12–1, pp. 393–9. Title: ‘The Empire talks back’. (Review article on Interviews with Writers of the Post-Colonial world. xxii Acknowledgements Conducted and edited by Feroza Jussawalla and Reed Way Dasenbrock. Jackson and London: University Press of Mississippi.) Chapter 10: Baumgardner, Robert J. (ed.) (1966) South Asian English: Structure, Use, and Users. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, pp. 9–28. Title: ‘South Asian English: Toward an identity in diaspora’. ...

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