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Book SynopsisThe plural form ''Englishes'' conveys the diversity of English as a global language, pinpointing the growth and existence of a large number of national, regional and social forms. The global spread of English and the new varieties that have emerged around the world has grown to be a vast area of study and research, which intersects multiple disciplines. This Handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of World Englishes from 1600 to the present day. Covering topics such as variationist sociolinguistics, pragmatics, contact linguistics, linguistic anthropology, corpus- and applied linguistics and language history, it combines discussion of traditional topics with a variety of innovative approaches. The chapters, all written by internationally acclaimed authorities, provide up-to-date discussions of the evolution of different Englishes around the globe, a comprehensive coverage of different models and approaches, and some original perspectives on current challenges.
Trade Review'This is a must-read volume! Three of the most eminent researchers on World Englishes achieve the difficult feat of capturing the essential findings of research in this vast field whilst also highlighting its contribution to linguistic theories and methodologies, and introducing some genuinely innovative perspectives.' Jenny Cheshire, Queen Mary University of London
Table of Contents1. World Englishes: an introduction Daniel Schreier, Marianne Hundt and Edgar W. Schneider; Part I. The Making of Englishes: 2. The colonial and post-colonial expansion of English Raymond Hickey; 3. Theoretical models of English as a world language Sarah Buschfeld and Alexander Kautzsch; 4. The contribution of language contact to the emergence of World Englishes Lisa Lim; 5. Population structure and the emergence of World Englishes Salikoko S. Mufwene; 6. World Englishes, migration, and diaspora Lena Zipp; Part II. World Englishes Old and New: 7. A sociolinguistic ecology of colonial Britain David Britain; 8. English in North America Merja Kytö; 9. English in the Caribbean and the Central American rim Michael Aceto; 10. English in Africa Bertus van Rooy; 11. English in South Asia Claudia Lange; 12. English in South-East Asia Lionel Wee; 13. World Englishes old and new: English in Australasia and the South Pacific Carolin Biewer and Kate Burridge; Part III. Linguistics and World Englishes: 14. The global growth of English at the grassroots Christiane Meierkord; 15. Beyond English as a second or foreign language: local uses and the cultural politics of identification Alison Edwards and Philip Seargeant; 16. World Englishes in cyberspace Christian Mair; 17. World Englishes and their dialect roots Daniel Schreier; 18. Lexicography and World Englishes James Lambert; 19. The relevance of World Englishes for variationist sociolinguistics Alexandra D'Arcy; 20. Multilingualism and the World Englishes Sue Fox; 21. Unearthing the diachrony of World Englishes Magnus Huber; 22. Corpus-based approaches to World Englishes Marianne Hundt; 23. World Englishes from the perspective of dialect typology Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Melanie Röthlisberger; 24. Language Acquisition and World Englishes Sarah Buschfeld; Part IV. Current Challenges: 25. Norms and standards in World Englishes Pam Peters; 26. Identity and indexicality in the study of World Englishes Erik Schleef; 27. The politics of World Englishes Mario Saraceni; 28. World Englishes in the media Andrew Moody; 29. World Englishes and transnationalism Brook Bolander.
