South Asian English
Subtitle: structure, use, and users
By: edited by Robert J. Baumgardner.
Contributors: Baumgardner, Robert Jackson.
Series: English in the global context
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: English language -- South Asia.; English language -- Variation -- South Asia.; English language -- Social aspects -- South Asia.
Description: This volumes examines selected formal and functional characteristics of English in South Asia, where English was introduced in the sixteenth century and now has over fifty million users. An integrative and interdisciplinary collection, the books brings together invited papers by acclaimed creative writers from India and Pakistan and by international linguists and English educators.

The five major facets of South Asian English discussed are context and uses: structure and contact; functions and innovations; the curriculum; and the multilingual's creativity. The volume provides current perspectives on complex issues of concern to teachers and students of world Englishes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-267) and index.