Week 5: English in South Asia
The label ‘South Asian Englishes’ is a cover term for English in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and the Maldives. The region of South Asia consists of geographically contiguous countries or islands near these. The colonial past of all, except Nepal and Bhutan, is similar. Furthermore, in the opinion of many scholars South Asia can be treated as a (socio-)linguistic area in which phonological, syntactic, lexical and stylistic features are shared to a large extent.
South Asian Englishes is a variety of the outer-circle Englishes. Here the causes of spread of English to the region along with linguistic features of SAE are discussed.
Course Material
- Week 1: Introduction
- Week 2: Models of English
- Week 3: ELF, Linguistic Imperialism
- Week 4: English in Europe
- Week 5: English in South Asia
- Week 6: English in North America
- Week 7: Variation in WE (Vocabulary)
- Week 8: Variations in WE (Grammar)
- Week 9: Variations in WE (Spellings n Pronunciation)
- Week 10: WE Domains (Media n Advertising)
- Week 11: WE Domains (Literature)
- Week 12: WE: Contemporary Contexts n Functions
- Week 13: Language Death
- Week 14: English Teaching across Cultures
- Week 15: Future of English
- Week 16: Which English and Why (Pedagogical Perspective)
- Reference Books
- Chapters 17
- Department English
- Teacher
Hafiz Ahmad Bilal
