Linguistic Landscapes In South East Asia

Author : Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000542288

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Linguistic Landscapes in South-East Asia by Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi Pdf

Anchored within current issues and debates in the field of Linguistic Landscape (LL) scholarship, this edited volume is concerned with politics of language and the semiotic construction of space in multilingual and multi-ethnic Asian countries. Spanning Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan and China, the chapters explore how different individuals and collectivities use semiotic resources in different spaces – schools, airports, streets and shops as well as online platforms – to reinforce or contest existing social structures, bearing strong implications for language maintenance and cultural revitalization, construction of ethnolinguistic and national identities, and socioeconomic mobility. Part I looks into how globalization and its accompanying forces and influences – such as the importance of English in socioeconomic mobility – come into contact with local Asian cultures and languages. Part II examines minority languages, demographically and socio-politically established in the countries, shedding light on the role of LL that plays in both their minorization and revitalization processes. Part III investigates how LL is utilized as a site for constructing identities to pursue socioeconomic, political and cultural goals. It is within this perspective that the presence and salience of English in the LL of the countries along with the use of the Asian languages is analyzed and understood, shedding light on how Asian heritage languages and cultures are preserved and/or certain identities in the times of political unrest or economic development are expressed. This fascinating insight into linguistic landscapes in Asia will be of interest to researchers, students and policy makers in sociolinguistics and applied linguistics anywhere in the world.

Author : P. Sercombe,R. Tupas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137455536

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Language, Education and Nation-building by P. Sercombe,R. Tupas Pdf

This volume tracks the complex relationships between language, education and nation-building in Southeast Asia, focusing on how language policies have been used by states and governments as instruments of control, assimilation and empowerment. Leading scholars have contributed chapters each representing one of the countries in the region.

Author : Andrew J. Moody
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780192855282

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The Oxford Handbook of Southeast Asian Englishes by Andrew J. Moody Pdf

This volume describes both the history and the contemporary forms, functions, and status of English in Southeast Asia. The chapters provide a comprehensive overview of current research on a wide range of topics, addressing the impact of English as a language of globalization and exploring new approaches to the spread of English in the region.

Author : Trang Phan,Tuan-Cuong Nguyen,Masaaki Shimizu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-09-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9819743133

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Studies in Vietnamese Historical Linguistics by Trang Phan,Tuan-Cuong Nguyen,Masaaki Shimizu Pdf

This book facilitates constructive interdisciplinary dialogue among linguistics and philology specialists concerning various languages in Vietnam, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. The book’s principal objective is to investigate the interdisciplinary nature of language change, with a particular focus on analyzing the structural and socio-cultural components of the evolution of specific linguistic phenomena over time. The book concentrates on the five primary language families in the East and Southeast Asian linguistic arena, namely Austroasiatic, Tai-Kadai, Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian, and Hmong-Mien. In doing so, it develops understanding of the extent to which language change is the result of language-internal mechanisms, prolonged contact with other languages within the same linguistic area, and the surrounding socio-cultural milieu. Given that Vietnam presents a linguistic microcosm of the East and Southeast Asia region, the book is divided into two sections. The first centers on historical linguistics relating to major languages based in Vietnam, including Vietnamese and its significant neighbors, Tay and Nung. The subsequent section examines the transformations observable in other languages prevalent across East and Southeast Asia that are historically, typologically, and geographically related to languages from Vietnam, including Chinese, Formosan, and Philippine languages, as well as Hmongic languages. A product of a workshop sponsored by the Harvard Yenching Institute held at the Institute of Sino-Nom Studies, this book encompasses a significant contribution to the field of Vietnamese historical linguistics, which has been notably underexplored in academic research. It is relevant to linguists, philologists, historians, anthropologists, and cultural scholars interested in Vietnam in particular, and the Southeast and East Asian cultural and linguistic landscape at large.

Author : Kingsley Bolton,Werner Botha,Andy Kirkpatrick
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781118791653

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The Handbook of Asian Englishes by Kingsley Bolton,Werner Botha,Andy Kirkpatrick Pdf

The first volume of its kind, focusing on the sociolinguistic and socio-political issues surrounding Asian Englishes The Handbook of Asian Englishes provides wide-ranging coverage of the historical and cultural context, contemporary dynamics, and linguistic features of English in use throughout the Asian region. This first-of-its-kind volume offers a wide-ranging exploration of the English language throughout nations in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia. Contributions by a team of internationally-recognized linguists and scholars of Asian Englishes and Asian languages survey existing works and review new and emerging areas of research in the field. Edited by internationally renowned scholars in the field and structured in four parts, this Handbook explores the status and functions of English in the educational institutions, legal systems, media, popular cultures, and religions of diverse Asian societies. In addition to examining nation-specific topics, this comprehensive volume presents articles exploring pan-Asian issues such as English in Asian schools and universities, English and language policies in the Asian region, and the statistics of English across Asia. Up-to-date research addresses the impact of English as an Asian lingua franca, globalization and Asian Englishes, the dynamics of multilingualism, and more. Examines linguistic history, contemporary linguistic issues, and English in the Outer and Expanding Circles of Asia Focuses on the rapidly-growing complexities of English throughout Asia Includes reviews of the new frontiers of research in Asian Englishes, including the impact of globalization and popular culture Presents an innovative survey of Asian Englishes in one comprehensive volume Serving as an important contribution to fields such as contact linguistics, World Englishes, sociolinguistics, and Asian language studies, The Handbook of Asian Englishes is an invaluable reference resource for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and instructors across these areas. Winner of the 2021 PROSE Humanities Category for Language & Linguistics

Author : Paul Sidwell,Mathias Jenny
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 983 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110558142

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The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia by Paul Sidwell,Mathias Jenny Pdf

The handbook will offer a survey of the field of linguistics in the early 21st century for the Southeast Asian Linguistic Area. The last half century has seen a great increase in work on language contact, work in genetic, theoretical, and descriptive linguistics, and since the 1990s especially documentation of endangered languages. The book will provide an account of work in these areas, focusing on the achievements of SEAsian linguistics, as well as the challenges and unresolved issues, and provide a survey of the relevant major publications and other available resources. We will address: Survey of the languages of the area, organized along genetic lines, with discussion of relevant political and cultural background issues Theoretical/descriptive and typological issues Genetic classification and historical linguistics Areal and contact linguistics Other areas of interest such as sociolinguistics, semantics, writing systems, etc. Resources (major monographs and monograph series, dictionaries, journals, electronic data bases, etc.) Grammar sketches of languages representative of the genetic and structural diversity of the region.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004473263

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Sinophone Southeast Asia by Anonim Pdf

This volume explores the diverse linguistic landscape of Southeast Asia’s Chinese communities. Based on archival research and previously unpublished linguistic fieldwork, it unearths a wide variety of language histories, linguistic practices, and trajectories of words. The localized and often marginalized voices we bring to the spotlight are quickly disappearing in the wake of standardization and homogenization, yet they tell a story that is uniquely Southeast Asian in its rich hybridity. Our comparative scope and focus on language, analysed in tandem with history and culture, adds a refreshing dimension to the broader field of Sino-Southeast Asian Studies.

Author : Ee Ling Low,Azirah Hashim
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027249029

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English in Southeast Asia by Ee Ling Low,Azirah Hashim Pdf

This volume provides a first systematic, comprehensive account of English in Southeast Asia (SEA) based on current research by leading scholars in the field. The volume first provides a systematic account of the linguistic features across all sub-varieties found within each country. It also has a section dedicated to the historical context and language planning policies to provide a background to understanding the development of the linguistic features covered in Part I and, finally, the vibrancy of the sociolinguistic and pragmatic realities that govern actual language in use in a wide variety of domains such as the law, education, popular culture, electronic media and actual pragmatic encounters are also given due coverage. This volume also includes an extensive bibliography of works on English in SEA, thus providing a useful and valuable resource for language researchers, linguists, classroom educators, policy makers and anyone interested in the topic of English in SEA or World Englishes as a whole.

Author : Peter Bellwood,Dr Ian Glover
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000940084

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Southeast Asia by Peter Bellwood,Dr Ian Glover Pdf

This comprehensive and absorbing book traces the cultural history of Southeast Asia from prehistoric (especially Neolithic, Bronze-Iron age) times through to the major Hindu and Buddhist civilizations, to around AD 1300. Southeast Asia has recently attracted archaeological attention as the locus for the first recorded sea crossings; as the region of origin for the Austronesian population dispersal across the Pacific from Neolithic times; as an arena for the development of archaeologically-rich Neolithic, and metal using communities, especially in Thailand and Vietnam, and as the backdrop for several unique and strikingly monumental Indic civilizations, such as the Khmer civilization centred around Angkor. Southeast Asia is invaluable to anyone interested in the full history of the region.

Author : Azirah Hashim,Gerhard Leitner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351590280

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English in Southeast Asia and ASEAN by Azirah Hashim,Gerhard Leitner Pdf

English in Southeast Asia and ASEAN embeds English in its various regional Southeast Asian and political ASEAN language habitats. Addressing the history, developmental stages and contacts with other languages, it provides in-depth information on the region and its political organization. In doing so, it analyzes the geo-political division of the region between former Anglophone and non-Anglophone colonies and shows that this distinction has led to considerable differences in the status and texture of English. This analysis includes the role and impact of American English in mainland and maritime Southeast Asia to highlight the linguistic properties of English and its linguistic and sociopolitical development, English used in specific domains, language policies and concludes with the future of English and future challenges. This book therefore provides an integrative survey of the various roles of English in ASEAN member states and studies the transformation of entire language habitats, including the major national and regional languages that participate in this process. It also explains how new societies emerge with their conflicting identities and their aspirations to act regionally or even globally and is a valuable resource for scholars and students in the fields of World Englishes, Asian Studies and those interested in language contact, policy and planning.

Author : Lee Hock Guan,Leo Suryadinata
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789812304827

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Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia by Lee Hock Guan,Leo Suryadinata Pdf

Papers from a workshop on Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia held in Singapore, 2003.

Author : Patricia Herbert,Anthony Crothers Milner
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0824812670

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South-East Asia by Patricia Herbert,Anthony Crothers Milner Pdf

Author : Jerry Won Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000586350

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The Sociolinguistics of Global Asias by Jerry Won Lee Pdf

The volume explores the social, cultural, and historical forms of “language” that have come to be associated with “Asia” as a global phenomenon and their implications for better understanding the contemporary linguistic and political landscape in Asias. The book examines the flows of migration, people, cultures, and language resources within, across, through, to, and from Asias in tandem with social, political, and ideological factors, drawing on case studies of global iterations of a wide range of Asian national and cultural imaginaries. In so doing, the volume builds on the growing body of scholarship on the sociolinguistics of globalization in its critical inquiries into the linguistic and cultural practices that have come to be constitutive of national or supranational localities toward unpacking the forces of globalization more broadly. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars interested in sociolinguistics, multilingualism, linguistic anthropology, Asian Studies, and Asian American studies.

Author : Cliff Goddard
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199273119

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The Languages of East and Southeast Asia by Cliff Goddard Pdf

"This book introduces the linguistic diversity of East and Southeast Asia. It contains treatments of diverse areas including: word origins, cultural key words, tones and sounds, language families and typology, key syntactic structures, writing systems and communicative style" --Provided by publisher.

Author : Alice Vittrant,Justin Watkins
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110402131

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The Mainland Southeast Asia Linguistic Area by Alice Vittrant,Justin Watkins Pdf

This book lies at the crossroads of areal typology, language contact and genetic affiliation. Concerned with mainland Southeast Asia in particular, the various grammatical sketches lay emphasis on characteristics shared by unrelated languages.