Bringing together scholarship on issues relating to language, culture, and identity, with a special focus on Asian countries, this volume makes an important con

Language and National Identity in Asia is a comprehensive introduction to the role of language in the construction and development of nations and national ident

The impact of globalization processes on language is an emergent field in sociolinguistics. To date there has not been an in-depth look at this in Asia, althoug

This book investigates how learners' motivations and identities are constructed in the process of learning and using multiple languages in Asian contexts. It pr

This book investigates, from a sociocultural, linguistic, and pedagogical perspective, the conceptual and pragmatic frameworks that characterize secondary langu