Sociolinguistics of Global Asias

<p>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. </p><p>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. </p><p>This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars interested in sociolinguistics multilingualism linguistic anthropology Asian Studies and Asian American studies. </p>