This fascinating study of languages in contact introduces new insights from popular culture, the globalised new economy and computer-mediated communication.

Lisa Lim is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Language and Communication programme at the University of Hong Kong. She co-edited The Typology of Asian Englishes (2009) and English in Multilingual, Globalising Asia (2009). She has developed the online resource LinguisticMinorities.HK, for which she won the Faculty Knowledge Exchange Award 2014.

1. Perspectives on contact; 2. Contact and code choice; 3. Contact and creole formation; 4. Contact and language evolution; 5. Contact and ecology; 6. Contact and shift; 7. Contact and globalisation; 8. Reflections and future directions.