Asian Englishes 5 Vols

In recent decades, the cultural and linguistic legacies of the colonial era have been superseded by the globalization of English through the international mass media, satellite television, computers and internet communications. In many societies that were previously the colonies of anglophone powers, new Englishes have appeared, visible most dramatically in the new literatures of India, Singapore and the Philippines, amongst others. However, many of these new Englishes are much older in provenance than linguists had previously recognized, as the process of British and American imperial expansion in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries took the English language to many parts of the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, China and Japan. Indeed, it is typically in these initial stages of political, historical and cultural contact that we can identify the dynamics of languages in contact and the origins of World Englishes in a range of settings, including South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia. This collection brings together a range of sources reprinted in facsimile, charting the spread of English throughout Asia and the development of 'Asian Englishes' from the eigthteenth century through to the 1960s. Including reprints of travel literature, missionary writings, articles by colonial officials, dictionaries, glossaries, legal documents, policy statements and textbooks, this is a unique and invaluable research resource for all those studying in this fascinating field.