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Price: £21.00
Pages: 360
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Imprint: Hong Kong University Press
Series: Asian Englishes Today
Publication Date:
08 March 2005
Trim Size: 9.20 X 6.30 in
ISBN: 9789622096653
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
"It is informative, academically stimulating, and intellectually entertaining, with the author's vast knowledge, profound insight, and sometimes provocative reinterpretations of issues..." -- Yasukata Yano, Professor of Linguistics and English, Waseda Univ
"Braj Kachru is the foremost authority on world Englishes, a field he initiated and played a major part in developing. Nearly half a century of incomparable work is distilled in Asian Englishes Beyond the Canon, which lifts this vital area of study onto a
"The most comprehensive and cogent case to date for a more nuanced and pragmatic understanding of Asian Englishes... provocative, even controversial as well as fresh and incisive. But true to form, Kachru does not shy away from scholarly debate or the lib
"A most comprehensive, globally informed, richly documented, and insightful reference on English in Asia, written by the guru of gurus on the development, the local ethnographic functions, the world status, and the structural characteristics of indigenize
"Braj Kachru is the foremost authority on world Englishes, a field he initiated and played a major part in developing. Nearly half a century of incomparable work is distilled in Asian Englishes Beyond the Canon, which lifts this vital area of study onto a
"The most comprehensive and cogent case to date for a more nuanced and pragmatic understanding of Asian Englishes... provocative, even controversial as well as fresh and incisive. But true to form, Kachru does not shy away from scholarly debate or the lib
"A most comprehensive, globally informed, richly documented, and insightful reference on English in Asia, written by the guru of gurus on the development, the local ethnographic functions, the world status, and the structural characteristics of indigenize
Braj B. Kachru is Center for Advanced Study Professor of Linguistics and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.