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- World Englishes in Asian Contexts
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: Hong Kong University Press, HKU
- Series: Asian Englishes Today
summary
This is the first English-language book to focus on the electric rice cooker and the impact it has had on the lives of Asian people.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page
- p. iii
- Series editor’s preface
- pp. xvii-xviii
- Acknowledgements
- p. xxi
- List of symbols and abbreviations
- pp. xxii-xxiii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-6
- Part I: Theory, Method and Contexts
- 1 World Englishes today
- pp. 9-22
- 2 Conceptual framework
- pp. 23-34
- 3 Structural variation
- pp. 35-49
- 4 Contexts and identities
- pp. 51-63
- 5 Parameters of intelligibility
- pp. 65-75
- Part II: Acquisition, Creativity, Standards and Testing
- 8 Creativity and innovations
- pp. 109-119
- 9 Teaching and testing world Englishes
- pp. 121-135
- 10 Teaching world English literatures
- pp. 137-149
- Part III: Profiles across Cultures
- 11 South Asian English
- pp. 153-165
- 12 East Asian Englishes
- pp. 167-180
- 13 Southeast Asian Englishes
- pp. 181-195
- 14 African Englishes
- pp. 197-210
- 15 African-American Vernacular English
- pp. 211-221
- Part IV: Applied Theory and World Englishes
- 16 Researching grammar
- pp. 225-240
- 17 Dictionaries of World Englishes
- pp. 241-253
- 18 Code-mixing and code-switching
- pp. 255-265
- 19 Culture and conventions of speaking
- pp. 267-282
- 20 Culture and conventions of writing
- pp. 283-291
- 21 Genre analysis across cultures
- pp. 293-304
- 22 Power, ideology and attitudes
- pp. 305-317
- Annotated bibliography
- pp. 347-356
- Additional resources
- pp. 357-359
- References
- pp. 361-395
Additional Information
ISBN
9789882203648
Related ISBN(s)
9789622097551
MARC Record
OCLC
650586914
Pages
436
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
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