In:The Politics of English: South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific
Edited by Lionel Wee, Robbie B.H. Goh and Lisa Lim
[Studies in World Language Problems 4] 2013
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 28 March 2013
https://doi.org/10.1075/wlp.4.toc
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Table of contents
Preface
1. Language policies, language ideologies and local language practices
Part I. South Asia
2. The politics of Hinglish
3. Globalization and multilingualism: Text types in the linguistic ecology of Delhi
4. Kaduva of privileged power, instrument of rural empowerment? The politics of English (and Sinhala and Tamil) in Sri Lanka
5. The interface of language, literature and politics in Sri Lanka: A paradigm for ex-colonies of Britain
Part II. Southeast Asia
6. Governing English in Singapore: Some challenges for Singapore’s language policy
7. Uncertain locale: The dialectics of space and the cultural politics of English in Singapore
8. The encroachment of English in Malaysian cultural expression
9. “They think speaking in English isn’t good, you know”: Negotiating bilingual identities in the Malay community
10. The grip of English and Philippine language policy
11. Nimble tongues: Philippine English and the feminization of labour
Part III. Asia Pacific
12. English vs. English conversation: Language teaching in modern Japan
13. Language policy and practice in English loanwords in Japanese
14. English speakers in Korea: A short literary history
15. English, class and neoliberalism in South Korea
16. Conclusion
Contributors
Index
