ABSTRACT
In Chapter 6, it was mentioned that some of the characteristics of Outer and Expanding Circle varieties reflect the physical, social, and cultural contexts as well as the impact of language contact in their regions. The same is true of the lexicon or vocabulary of the Englishes used in the Asian contexts. Just as American English had to find words to talk about the various locational and sociocultural facts of the new world, Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Philippine, and Singaporean Englishes had to do the same in their respective sites. The Inner, Outer, and Expanding Circle English lexicons thus show variation just as their phonological and grammatical structures do.
