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SOCIETY and language across Asia, argues Braj Kachru, are parting ways with the traditional canons of the Raj. New Metaphors are being used to identify the emerging nation states — India, Pakistan, China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Thailand, to name a few — `the roaring Asian tiger', `the awakened giant', and `the yawning elephant'. And the newly awakened Asia has heralded in `the Asian age'. Consequently, the English language has been re-crafted at various linguistic, sociological, and cultural levels and relocated in an Asian milieu...

Asian Englishes: Beyond the Canon, Braj B. Kachru, OUP, 2005, p.333, Rs.695

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