This book is a collection of research-based papers on the development of Malaysian English (ME) from the immediate post-Independence period to the present. The chapters chart the chronological, linguistic as well as functional development of contemporary ME that provide new information on the variety beyond its identity as a postcolonial English.

Hajar Abdul Rahim is an Associate Professor of Linguistics and a principal member of the (ICE) Malaysia. Shakila Abdul Manan is an Associate Professor of English Language Studies and Editor-in-Chief of the . The editors are staff members of the English Language Studies Department, School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia.

Contents: Hajar Abdul Rahim/Shakila Abdul Manan: Postcolonial ME: Realities and Prospects – Hajar Abdul Rahim: Malaysian English Lexis: Postcolonial and Beyond – Stefanie Pillai: The Monophthongs and Diphthongs of Malaysian English: An Instrumental Analysis – Alias Abd Ghani: Phonological Variation in the Speech Production of Malaysian Learners of English – Peter Collins: Modal Expressions in Malaysian English – Rita Abdul Rahman Ramakrishna: Discoursal Features of Malaysian English in Malaysian Short Stories – Shakila Abdul Manan: The Linguistics of Creativity: Nativising Malaysian Postcolonial Creative Writings in English – Nurul Farhana Low Abdullah: Malaysian English in Postcolonial Adaptations of Shakespeare in Malaysia – Francisco Perlas Dumanig/Maya Khemlani David: Miscommunication in Filipino-Malaysian Interactions: Intercultural Discourse in English.