Speaker：Lisa Lim（Associate Professor VinUniversity, Vietnam）
Title：Un/anticipated itineraries: Rethinking mobilities, contact, and the evolution of Asian Englishes
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Abstract (short):

In this lecture, I foreground several mobilities that are significant for our study of emergent varieties of English in Asia, with particular attention not to the usual suspects – the English-speaking settlers and administrators, and the immediate local communities and languages – but rather to itineraries which are often unanticipated. These, I suggest, need to be appreciated for their significance in the contact dynamics that ensued, and the corresponding impact on the evolution of Asian Englishes.

 

Bio: Lisa Lim is the Director of Engagement and Development of the UNESCO Chair in Environmental Leadership, Cultural Heritage, and Biodiversity, at VinUniversity, Hanoi. She previously held professoriate positions in Singapore, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Perth. Her interests centre around New – especially Asian – Englishes in multilingual ecologies; issues of language shift, endangerment, and postvernacular vitality in minority and endangered language communities; and the sociolinguistics of globalisation, with attention to migration and mobility, computer-mediated communication, and urban linguistic diversity, and their impact on contact dynamics.