"Much research has been carried out on varieties of English used in Southeast Asia, but how intelligible these varieties are to others and whether a shift towards an international 'standard' variety occurs in interactions between people from the region, h

"Andy Kirkpatrick's authoritative and scholarly new book, English as a Lingua Franca in ASEAN, is a mine of information on recent developments in English within ASEAN and the East Asian region more broadly. Its comprehensive and detailed coverage fills a

Andy Kirkpatrick is Professor and Head, Languages and Linguistics, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. His research interests include the development of regional varieties of English and the history of Chinese rhetoric. He is the author of World Englishes Implications for International Communication and ELT (2007), and editor of The Handbook of World Englishes (2010).