Lisa Lim and Umberto Ansaldo
Sep 2015, Cambridge University Press, 251 pp
Introducing new findings from popular culture, the globalised new economy and computer-mediated communication, this is a fascinating study of contact between languages in modern societies. Ansaldo and Lim bring together research on multilingualism, code-switching, language endangerment, and globalisation, into a comprehensive overview of world Englishes and creoles. Illustrated with a wide range of original examples from typologically diverse languages, including Sinitic, Autronesian, Dravidian and other non-Indo-European varieties, the book focuses on structural analyses of Asian ecologies and their relevance for current theories of contact phenomena. Full of new insights, it is essential reading for students and researchers across linguistics, culture and communication.
Dr. Lisa Lim is an Associate Professor in the School of English at HKU. Her current research interests centre around: New Englishes, especially postcolonial Asian varieties in multilingual ecologies; phonetics/ phonology/ prosody; language documentation; and issues of language shift, endangerment, revitalisation, and post-vernacular linguistic and cultural vitality; and the sociolinguistics of globalisation.
Dr. Umberto Ansaldo is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics of School of Humanities at HKU. His interests include language contact, sociolinguistics, typology and endangered languages. He works on languages of the Sinitic group, Malay varieties, languages of Sri Lanka and Pidgins and Creoles.
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