Full Description
English in Malaysia: Current Use and Status offers an account of the English language used in present-day West and East Malaysia and its status anchored in different linguistic, social and educational domains. After an Introduction giving a bird's eye view of the status of English in Malaysia, the eight main chapters offer case studies revolving around four themes:
i. linguistic features, with special focus on pronunciation and language contact;
ii. language attitudes;
iii. English in on-line discourse; and
iv. English and language policies.
The chapters cover original data and topics, seeking to draw an accurate portrait of Malaysian English, a non-native variety of postcolonial English that is currently developing its pronunciation, grammar, lexis and distinct identity.
Contributors are: Ambigapathy Pandian, Paolo Coluzzi, Sachihiko Kondo, James McLellan, Magnús Pétursson, Patricia Nora Riget, Rachel Siew Kuang Tan, Siew Imm Tan, and Xiaomei Wang.
Contents
- Abbreviations vii
- Preface ix
- Introduction
- 1 English in Malaysia: Background, Status and Use 3
Toshiko Yamaguchi and David Deterding
- Linguistic Features
- 2 Malaysian English: Evidence of Contact with Classifier Languages 25
Siew Imm Tan
- 3 The New [t] in Malaysian English 45
Toshiko Yamaguchi and Magnús Pétursson
- 4 How do We Stress? Lexical Stress in Malaysian and British English 65
Rachel Siew Kuang Tan
- Language Attitudes
- 5 Attitudes towards Malay, English and Chinese among Malaysian Students: A Matched Guise Test 89
Paolo Coluzzi
- 6 English for the Indigenous People of Sarawak: Focus on the Bidayuhs 102
Patricia Nora Riget and Xiaomei Wang
- Malaysian English Online
- 7 English and Other Languages in the Online Discourse of East Malaysians 125
James McLellan
- Malaysian English and Language Policies
- 8 Literacy Practices in English in Malaysian Educational Settings 147
Pandian Ambigapathy
- 9 Impact of the English Language on University Policy in Malaysia and Japan 172
Sachihiko Kondo
- Afterword
- 10 A Prognosis for the Future 193
David Deterding and Toshiko Yamaguchi
- Index
