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Biographical note
Andy Kirkpatrick is Professor in the Department of Languages, Humanities and Social Sciences at Griffith University. Publications include World Englishes (Cambridge 2007), English as a Lingua Franca in ASEAN (2010), Trilingual Education in Hong Kong's Primary Schools (2019) and The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Asian Varieties of English (2020). Wang Lixun is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong. Publications include Introduction to Language Studies (2011), Academic Writing in Language and Education Programmes (2011), Trilingual Education in Hong Kong Primary Schools (2019), and Identity, Motivation, and Multilingual Education in Asian Contexts (2020). He is co-editor of the Springer book series Multilingual Education.'Kirkpatrick is teacher, researcher, and storyteller in Is English an Asian Language? The book is a must-read to scholars of English language studies not only of and in Asia, but also the rest of the world.' Isabel Pefianco Martin, Professor at the Department of English, Ateneo de Manila University
'In this extraordinary book, Andy Kirkpatrick draws on a lifetime of scholarship and experience of English in Asia. He demonstrates that, in terms of its history, demographics, linguistic form and culturally embedded functions, English is an Asian language. Students of world Englishes, English as a lingua franca, and multilingualism will find data and theoretically grounded interpretation presented in an accessible style, making sense of one of the most profound cultural developments of our times.' Daniel R. Davis, Professor of Linguistics, University of Michigan–Dearborn, and Co-editor, World Englishes
'… comprehensive, amply documented … Recommended.' C. Machado, Choice