Robert N. St. Clair

Department of Communication

University of Louisville

Louisville, KY 40292

 

Why Study Asian Englishes?

Introduction

 

Assignment 1

How do International Languages differ from World Languages?

 

The myth of monolingualism
World languages versus international languages
Where do international languages come from?
Whose world language should one use?
Forced identities and economic interests

Multilingual international universities

 

Assignment 2

 

Why speakers of a Lingua Francas may be Bicultural

 

The Rise of National Languages
Are bilinguals also bicultural?

Concluding Remarks

 

Assignment 3

 

What is Asian Substratum Theory?

 

What is substratum theory?
Evidence from the Romance Languages
How substrate structures influence superstrate languages
Implications for Philippine English

 

Assignment 4

 

How can Grammaticalization explain Asian English?

Defining the context of the situation

What are the functions of verbs?

What are the functions of nouns?

How does one construct social space?

How does one construct social time?

How does one modify time?

How does one compare things and events?

 

Assignment 5

The concept of shikata

The major eras of cultural history

Societal types

Behind the Masks, Kabuki and Noh

Individalism versus Collectivism

 

Assignment 6

Anthropology of Culture

Sociology of culture

The Social Construction of Reality

How Mass Media Functions in Consumer Socieities

Cultural Materialism as the New World Culture

The Consumer Culture as the New World Culture

Implications for Cross-Cultural Study

 

Assignment 7

Conflict Management across Cultures

Concept of Face

Progressives in Japanese and English

Nominalizations and Linguistic Directness

Topicalization and Language Theory

The Rhetoric of Commentation

 

Assignment 8

Focus on Linguistic Theory

Focus on Social Theory

Focus on Cognition