'Thank you for calling': Asian Englishes and 'native-like' performance in Asian call centres

The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 550-564

  Bolton, Kingsley ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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