Asian Englishes

Important concepts:

• Colonial Legacy
• Code-Switching and Code-Mixing
• Lexical Borrowing (including idioms)
• Adapted Grammar
• Unique Pronunciation Features
• Pragmatic Particles
• Local Idioms and Expressions
• Diglossia (formal and informal varieties)

Videos

• Singaporean Language Fakkah Fuzz
• Hong Kong English from Insurance Add
• Australian Abbreviations Hi Josh

Dictionaries

• Singlish Online Lexicon Siew Yen Chow, Chang-Uk Shin and Francis Bond

Readings and Resources

Slides: World & Asian Englishes

Bolton, Kingsley. (2012). World Englishes and Asian Englishes: A survey of the field. In English as an International Language in Asia: Implications for Language Education 0.1007/978-94-007-4578-0_2.

Kingsley Bolton, Werner Botha, Andy Kirkpatrick, eds (2020) 10.1002/9781118791882 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.