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| Series Editor's Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | South Asian English: Toward an Identity in Diaspora | 9 |
| 2 | English in South Asia: Imperialist Legacy and Regional Asset | 29 |
| 3 | Attitudes toward English: The Future of English in South Asia | 40 |
| 4 | Toward a Syntax of South Asian English: Defining the Lectal Range | 55 |
| 5 | Using Computer Corpora in the Description of Language with Special Reference to Complementation in Indian English | 70 |
| 6 | Some Features of Nepali Newspaper English | 82 |
| 7 | The Relationship of New Englishes and Linguistic Theory: A Cognitive-Based Grammar of Nepali English | 88 |
| 8 | Syntactic "Deletion" in Lankan English: Learning from a New Variety of English about... | 104 |
| 9 | Language and Cultural Meaning: Expository Writing in South Asian English | 127 |
| 10 | The Pragmatics of South Asian English | 141 |
| 11 | Nativization of Job Applications in South Asia | 158 |
| 12 | Innovation in Pakistani English Political Lexis | 174 |
| 13 | Acceptability and English Curriculum Change in Bangladesh | 191 |
| 14 | The Ideational Function of English in Sri Lanka | 206 |
| 15 | A Coat of Many Colors | 221 |
| 16 | Creative Processes in Pakistani English Fiction | 231 |
| Afterword | 241 | |
| References Cited | 247 | |
| Contributors | 269 | |
| Index | 273 |
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Steven Melton
reviewed South Asian English: Structure, Use, and Users on November 13, 2014
South Asian English
Overall, the message of the story is that people learn languages according to different cognitive styles in different situations.
The book is very dense and somewhat hard to read since lots of information is just thrown at you. If you really want to read this, then I suggest you keep a pen and paper or a highlight nearby to take notes.
The authors use lots of scientific and linguistic jargon, which makes this book a bit inaccessible to everyday readers. It's not a "pop psych" book. They definitely know what they're talking about since they mention most of the major studies done on second language acquisition. Long story short, the book contains a lot of useful information, but it may be hard for an average, non-scientific and/or non-linguistic, person to read.
For example, beforehand, I read some of the research studies that they quote, so I knew what they were talking about most of the time, but I have no linguistic background. When they delve deeper into the nitty-gritty linguistic terms, it takes a lot of processing to keep things straight.
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