Sociolinguistic Profile of English in East Asia

DOI

10.2991/essd-19.2019.4How to use a DOI?

Keywords

language variety, intercultural communication, China English, Japanese English, Korean English, English language proficiency

Abstract

In modern world all spheres of people's life - politics, economy and culture - are under the influence of globalization process. People should have a common means of communication -a lingua franca - if they want to cooperate mutually beneficially in modern world. The English language is such lingua franca, a means of cross-cultural communication, for many nations of different cultural and ethnic background, as about 1.5 billion people speak English today. English, being a global language, gave rise to many varieties in different parts of the world, Asian Englishes among them. The article deals with sociolinguistic profile of English and history of its development in China, Japan and Korea. Users and uses of English in East Asia also have their own lingua franca, showing impact on East-Asian languages and attitude to it.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Irina Khokhlova
PY  - 2019/07
DA  - 2019/07
TI  - Sociolinguistic Profile of English in East Asia
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Education Science and Social Development (ESSD 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 15
EP  - 17
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/essd-19.2019.4
DO  - 10.2991/essd-19.2019.4
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