ASEAN eBooks
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Title :Counterterrorism and International Power Relations : The EU, ASEAN and Hegemonic Global Governance
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Author :Beyer, Cornelia
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Year :2010
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Abstracts :Why do states and international relations organisations participate in the ‘global war on terrorism'? This book asks this question within a broad framework, exploring the mechanisms and causes for participation in global governance and taking counterterrorism as a pertinent case. Challenging the assumption of egalitarian structures of global governance, the author argues that power relations and the use of power (influence, coercion and force) play a more important role than previously suggested. Providing a critical assessment of the counterterrorism policies of EU, US and ASEAN, the book identifies a number of causes of participation in hegemonic governance, including asymmetric interdependence with the US, open and informal pressure in the case of the EU, and the authority and legitimacy of the leading actors.'Throughout the early twenty-first century, state governments have worked to develop policies and mutual understandings which advocates claim will improve their collective ability to protect themselves from terrorism. In this book, Anna Cornelia Beyer demonstrates that their efforts conform to a pattern of organisation and power relations which she describes as “hegemonic governance”. Using data gathered from primary source documents and original interviews with recognised authorities, she contributes meaningful knowledge to several bodies of scholarly literature. In addition to this, her work also contains a useful approach to policy-oriented studies of counterterrorism.'- Dr Tom Kane, Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of HullView
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Title :Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific : Indonesia's Ascent : Power, Leadership, and the Regional Order
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Author :B. Roberts, Christopher D. Habir, Ahmad C. Sebastian, Leonard
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Year :2015
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Abstracts :Regionalism -- Indonesia. Political leadership -- Indonesia. Power (Social sciences) -- Indonesia. Indonesia -- Foreign relations. Indonesia -- Politics and government -- 21st century.View
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Title :Data Quality in Southeast Asia Analysis of Official Statistics and Their Institutional Framework as a Basis for Capacity Building and Policy Making in the ASEAN
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Author :Authors: Manuel Stagars
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Year :2016
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Abstracts :This book explores the reliability of official statistical data in the ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations), and the benefits of a better vocabulary to discuss the quality of publicly available data to address the needs of all users. It introduces a rigorous method to disaggregate and rate data quality into principal factors containing a total of ten dimensions, which serves as the basis for a discussion on the opportunities and challenges for data quality, capacity building programs and data policy in Southeast Asia. Tools to standardize and monitor statistical capacity and data quality are presented, as well as methods and data sources to analyse data quality. The book analyses data quality in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Brunei, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar, before concluding with thoughts on Open Data and the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC).View
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Title :Destructive Creativity of Wall St. and the East Asian Response
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Author :Heng, Michael S. H. Lim, Tai-Wei
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Year :2009
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Abstracts :The current financial crisis provides a valuable occasion for the world to re-examine the grand statements of wisdom which dominate the financial world for a long time. The impact is extremely serious as a result of the convergence of a number of factors such as huge current account deficits of the United States, globalization, deregulation, loose monetary policy, and excessive liquidity. This book seeks to address the critical issues in deregulation, derivatives, leveraging, remuneration systems, and rating agencies.This book will also examine Asia's response and why Asian economies have been less affected by the global financial crisis. Are corporate governance, culture, management styles or even a state-led model the main reasons? Would the Asian sovereign funds help to be the last line of defense against the excesses of the crisis? Is the US$80 billion Asian crisis fund envisaged as the first instance of a coordinated East Asian response to the crisis and would this truly underpin the creation of an East Asian regional order? This book reaffims the need for banks and financial institutions to provide value-adding services, exercise prudence and due diligence and pay due regard for societal interest.Contents:Destructive Creativity of Wall Street: Potted History of Banking and Finance In the Shadow of Depression? Financial Engineering or What Can Go Wrong Will Financial Architecture — I Financial Architecture — II Reforming the IMF — From Fire Fighting to Fire Prevention Regulation and Deregulation Back to Basics Counter–Cyclical Measures Some Deeper Issues The East Asian Response: The 1997 Asian Financial Crisis Ten Years After the Asian Financial Crisis — Positive Lessons Learned Ten Years After the Asian Financial Crisis — Negative Lessons Learned Deconstructing the State-led Model Reforming the State–led Model The Global Financial Crisis 2008 Impact and Immediate Response to the Crisis in East Asia Coordinating with the Region and the World ASEAN Economic Regionalism: A Regional Financial Architecture in the Making? Forming an Economic Community A Shift in Power Center? What Now? Coping with Challenges Appendix: Developing an East Asian Business Ethos (by Ho Kwon Ping)Readership: General readers, who are interested to learn more about the financial crises and/or interested in the area studies of China and Japan.View
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Title :Developing Strategies for the Modern International Airport : East Asia and Beyond
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Author :Williams, Alan
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Year :2006
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Abstracts :Developing Strategies for the Modern International Airport identifies and analyses the primary issues facing the modern international airport, and their role in a global economy. Based on the premise that the aviation industry has a primary and decisive role in the economic and social development of the modern international economy, this book examines the modern international airport and its process of integration into the larger global economy.As the integration of the aviation industry within the larger context of international business grows, there are an increasing number of important airport sites world wide, which are exhibiting the characteristics of what has been called by one authority an ‘aerotropolis', where major airports are integrated into the wider multi business dynamics of cities such as Shanghai or Beijing.Such pioneering developments are indicative of this region and bring with them a host of new issues and challenges for economic development. While international projections of the growth in demand for aviation services suggest that the key region for future expansion will be the ASEAN group of countries, there are marked differences between countries in their overall plans for viable economic development. As a result, the essential raising of funding required for international airport development must compete against other potential development projects all trying to attract the attention of national policy makers. Developing Strategies for the Modern International Airport examines the issues within the context of the development of a new generation of international airports in East Asia. The approach is multidisciplinary, with individual chapters reviewing and analysing the range of strategic issues facing the modern international airport from different perspectives: economic, geopolitical, developmental, demographic and geographic. The book also identifies matters and issues that could form the agenda for further and more detailed examination.The readership will include university and tertiary students engaged in the study of aviation management, as well as aviation economics and economic geography. The work will also be of interest to airport managers and officials employed by key regulative agencies and research centres working in aviation studies.View
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Title :Development of Tourism and the Hospitality Industry in Southeast Asia
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Author :Purnendu Mandal John Vong
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Year :2016
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Abstracts :This book highlights the state-of-the-art tourism and hospitality industry in Southeast Asian countries, while also presenting future directions for the industry with an emphasis on decision-making models. It first elaborates on the significant role of the tourism and hospitality industry given the rapid socio-economic and cultural changes occurring in Southeast Asia, before providing perspectives on medical tourism, tourism for seniors and several other developments within the tourism and hospitality sector. Development of Tourism and the Hospitality Industry in Southeast Asia presents scholarly perspectives from researchers across the region and is geared towards world-wide readers in academia, as well as experts from the industry.View
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Title :Dictionary of Wa : With Translations Into English, Burmese and Chinese = Phuk Lai Toe: Dee Bleeh Lox Vax: Lox Hawx - Lox Man - Lox Enggalang = Pug La?i Doui Nde?e Nbleeih Loux Va?x: Loux Hox - Loux Ma?n - Loux Eing Ga Lang
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Author :Watkins, Justin
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Year :2013
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Abstracts :Compiled from a digitised corpus of printed texts from the Wa-speaking areas on both sides of the the Burma-China border, The Dictionary of Wa translates some 12,000 headwords from the northern Mon-Khmer language Wa into Burmese, Chinese and English.View
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Title :Different under God : a Survey of Church-Going Protestants in Singapore
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Author :Chong, Terence ; Hui, Yew-Foong
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Year :2013
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Abstracts :“Different under God is the first substantial, comprehensive and scientific analysis of Christianity in Singapore, covering religious, social and political attitudes. This survey by Terence Chong and Hui Yew-Foong will be enthusiastically welcomed by todays sociologists and historians in the future. An important and timely contribution to the sociology of religion and to the study of Singapore.” —Bryan S. Turner, Presidential Professor of Sociology, the Graduate Centre, the City, University of New York, USAView
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Title :Dispelling the Darkness : Voyage in the Malay Archipelago and the Discovery of Evolution by Wallace and Darwin
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Author :Van Wyhe, John
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Year :2013
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Abstracts :“The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness.”T H Huxley (1887)Darwin is one of the most famous scientists in history. But he was not alone. Comparatively forgotten, Wallace independently discovered evolution by natural selection in Southeast Asia. This book is based on the most thorough research ever conducted on Wallace's voyage. Closely connected, but worlds apart, Darwin and Wallace's stories hold many surprises. Did Darwin really keep his theory a secret for twenty years? Did he plagiarise Wallace? Were their theories really the same? How did Wallace hit on the solution, and on which island? This book reveals for the first time the true story of Darwin, Wallace and the discovery that would change our understanding of life on Earth forever.Sample Chapter(s)Introduction (247 KB)Chapter 1: Great Expectations (6,496 KB)Contents:IntroductionGreat ExpectationsEmpires of SteamSingaporeMalacca and BorneoTesting the WatersCrossing the LineIn Search of ParadiseStruggle and SpiceThe Longest DayDarwin's DelayCrossing BackCounting UpReadership: Student, professional, general public.View
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Title :Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia : Magic and Modernity
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Author :Gottowik, Volker
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Year :2014
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Abstracts :Starting from the premise that modernity has cast a spell over people around the world, this collection explores the use of magic and religion as modern tools for connection. The contributors draw on new ethnographic research in Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Indonesia to show that residents of these countries no longer see religion and modernity as contradictory. Rather, religious ideas and magic practices help people across the region to meet the challenges of modern life. Revising our understanding of religion in Southeast Asia, this collection sheds new light on the multiple modernities that characterize our globalized world.View
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Title :Economic and Social Impact of Liberalization : A Study on Early Harvest Program Under China-Asean FTA
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Author :Zhang, Yunling
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Year :2009
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Abstracts :This vital book examines the effect of the China-ASEAN FTA Early Harvest Program from a Chinese perspective and also from the perspectives of major members of ASEAN. It explores how regional trade has allowed greater market access, increased competitiveness and discusses the benefits and the problems for those involved.View
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Title :Economic Diplomacy : Essays and Reflections by Singapore's Negotiators
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Author :Lim, C. L. Liang, Margaret
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Year :2011
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Abstracts :Singapore, a small Southeast Asian country with limited resources, transformed itself from a trading post to a successful, cosmopolitan nation with one of the most impressive growth rates in the world. Less well known, however, has been its role in regional and global trade negotiations. This book is a collection of sixteen essays written by a group of diplomats, policy-makers, and professors who became involved in international economic affairs, notably in GATT/WTO, regional and bilateral free trade negotiations. Here, they reveal their thoughts about the world economy and trading system, reflect on their experiences, and explain how they promoted national interests while advancing the global trade agenda. This book will appeal not only to professional diplomats, but to anyone interested in how international economic diplomacy works and Singapore's role and perspective as an open trading nation.Contents:Singapore's Economic Diplomacy: An Introduction (B Desker et al.)Essays and Reflections on Multilateralism:The WTO Institutional Reforms: Issues and Prospects (C M See)Informal Caucuses Within the WTO: Singapore in the “Invisibles Group” (B Desker)Anti-Dumping Negotiations in the Uruguay Round: Reflections of a Singapore Negotiator (M Liang)Intellectual Property Rights in the Uruguay Round (S Tiwari)A New Approach to Trade Negotiations? (V G Menon)Domestic Regulations in Services: A Chairman's Perspective (P Govindasamy)Future Trends in Intellectual Property and Impact on Trade and Development (G Yu)My Experiences with the WTO Dispute Settlement System (T Koh)The WTO Ministerial Conference in Singapore (K Kesavapany)Essays and Reflections on Free Trade Agreements: An Intuitive Guide to the Services Chapter of the United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (Y K Ong)Some Lessons from Past FTA Disputes (C L Lim)ASEAN's Journey Towards Free Trade (D S S Chin)The Road to Free Trade Agreements (B K Ng & N O Minn)Multilateral or Regional — WTO “and/or” FTAs? An Academic's View of the Trenches (M Ewing-Chow)The China–Singapore Free Trade Agreement (B K Ng)The Japan–Singapore Free Trade Agreement (K K Pang)Readership: Statesmen, policy makers, professional diplomats, scholars and anyone who may be interested in international trade negotiations.View
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Title :Economic Integration and Development : Has Regionalism Delivered for Developing Countries?
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Author :Kreinin, Mordechai Elihau Plummer, Michael G.
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Year :2002
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Abstracts :Mordechai Kreinin and Michael Plummer consider the implications of the emerging global trend of economic regionalism for developing countries. The analysis focuses on the trade and investment effects of integration in developed countries on developing countries, as well as the ramifications of regional integration in the latter. After an extensive review of the theoretical and empirical literature pertinent to the economics of regionalism, the book considers the ex-post trade and direct-foreign-investment effects of the Single Market Program in Europe and NAFTA, followed by chapters on ASEAN and economic integration in Latin America, primarily MERCOSUR.View
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Title :Effects of Land-Use Change on Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations South and Southeast Asia as a Case Study
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Author :Virginia H. Dale
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Year :1994
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Abstracts :Roger C. Dahlman Environmental Sciences Division U.S. Department of Energy Washington, D.C. The potential for humans to alter Earth's atmosphere has been recognized since the end of the 19th century when Arrhenius estimated that a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide could alter the atmospheric radiation balance and raise average global temperature. Today, atmospheric CO concentrations play an important part in the 2 climate-change debate. Sources and sinks of CO associated with land use can be 2 significant determinants of the rate and magnitude of atmospheric CO change. 2 Combustion of fossil fuels and the deforestation associated with land-use change both contribute CO to the atmosphere; in contrast, biological processes on land create 2 potential sinks for the excess CO . Thus, land-use change and associated biological 2 processes become important elements in assessments of future atmospheric CO 2 increase; land-cover properties also affect the Earth's albedo, which is a climate feedback.View
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Title :Embedded Entrepreneurship : Market, Culture, and Micro-business in Insular Southeast Asia
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Author :Rudie, Ingrid Bra?ten, Eldar
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Year :2013
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Abstracts :Embedded Entrepreneurship examines the importance of cultural meaning in the creation and utilization of economic value. The authors demonstrate that micro-scale entrepreneurship in Insular Southeast Asia is culturally embedded, and suggest theoretical convergences between economic anthropology and economic sociology.View
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Title :Encountering Islam : the Politics of Religious Identities in Southeast Asia
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Author :Hui, Yew-Foong
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Year :2012
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Abstracts :Encountering Islam: The Politics of Religious Identities in Southeast Asia, edited by Hui Yew-Foong, may not frame the culture-wars debate among Muslims in the region, but the book's three chapters on Islam in Indonesia can be more easily understood if read from the differing perspectives of the conservative-liberal political spectrum (Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies).View
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Title :Engaging East Asian Integration : States, Markets and the Movement of People
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Author :Shiraishi, Takashi ; Okamoto, Jiro?
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Year :2012
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Abstracts :The Institute of Developing Economies-JapanExternal Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO)organized a symposium in December 2008 on the theme ,“Engaging East Asian Integration :States ,Markets and the Movement of People ”.It was held in the wake of the Lehman Brothers collapse and in the midst of the deepening global financial crisis that originated in the United States .The crisis reminded us of other historic events that marked turning points in the history of East Asian region making .One was the Plaza Accord in 1985 which marked the beginning of the region ’s economic development and regionalization .The yen appreciated enormously in the wake of the Plaza Accord ,forcing Japanese firms —above all ,electronics...View
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Title :English As a Lingua Franca in ASEAN : A Multilingual Model
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Author :Kirkpatrick, Andy
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Year :2010
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Abstracts :The role of English as a lingua franca in Asia is increasing exponentially. This book considers the pedagogical and language policy implications of this role of English as a lingua franca throughout ASEAN. A linguistic description of this ASEAN ELF is provided along with a description of the communicative strategies of its users.View
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Title :English in Southeast Asia : Features, Policy and Language in Use
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Author :Azirah Hashim Low, Ee Ling
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Year :2012
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Abstracts :This volume provides a first systematic, comprehensive account of English in Southeast Asia (SEA) based on current research by leading scholars in the field. The volume first provides a systematic account of the linguistic features across all sub-varieties found within each country. It also has a section dedicated to the historical context and language planning policies to provide a background to understanding the development of the linguistic features covered in Part I and, finally, the vibrancy of the sociolinguistic and pragmatic realities that govern actual language in use in a wide variety of domains such as the law, education, popular culture, electronic media and actual pragmatic encounters are also given due coverage. This volume also includes an extensive bibliography of works on English in SEA, thus providing a useful and valuable resource for language researchers, linguists, classroom educators, policy makers and anyone interested in the topic of English in SEA or World Englishes as a whole.View
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Title :English in Southeast Asia : Varieties, Literacies and Literatures
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Author :Azirah Hashim Martin, Isabel Prescott, David Kirkpatrick, Andy
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Year :2007
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Abstracts :This book represents a new publishing venture in terms of its range of concerns with regard to English in Southeast Asia. The chapters in the volume reflect the interests and themes of the annual Conferences on English in Southeast Asia held since 1996 among participating universities from nine countries: Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Philippines, Australia, Hong Kong, Thailand Indonesia and New Zealand. This is believed to be the first time that such diversity and coverage has been published in a single volume. The three sections of the book cover topics which have been consistently discussed at the conferences during the last ten years. The Varieties section features chapters on phonology, dictionary making, syntax, code-switching and the communicative strategies of English speakers from ASEAN countries. The Literacies section focuses on ICT in English language teaching, Information literacy, bilingual and multilingual issues in Southeast Asia, recent developments in English language teaching and education in Thailand and questions of heritage and identity with respect to English in Malaysia. In the Literatures section the concerns are with new generation writings in English in Malaysia, the literature read by young Filipinos, the use of English in Malaysian newspapers in the context of general elections, the discourses of Asian English newspapers in relation to notions like “globalisation” and “global English” and ASEAN English on Internet websites.As a collection of work by experienced academics engaged in the issues germane to the roles and status of English in Southeast Asia this volume is an excellent resource for university students, university teaching and research staff and university library collections.View
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