This volume offers a comprehensive treatment of World Englishes that engages constructively with current linguistic theories, questions, and methodologies. Its 36 articles are divided between four themes: Foundations, World Englishes and Linguistic Theory, Areal Profiles, and Case Studies. Cumulatively, it offers detailed accounts of the structure and social histories of specific varieties of English spoken across the globe.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- PART I: FOUNDATIONS
- 1. Introduction (Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola and Devyani Sharma)
- 2. The Spread of English (Peter Trudgill)
- 3. Models of English in the World (Edgar Schneider)
- PART II: WORLD ENGLISHES AND LINGUISTIC THEORY
- Language Structure
- 4. World Englishes and Phonological Theory (Christian Uffmann)
- 5. World Englishes and Syntactic and Semantic theory (Vivienne Fong)
- 6. World Englishes and Corpora (Christian Mair)
- 7. World Englishes and the Study of Typology and Universals (Peter Siemund and Julia Davydova)
- 8. World Englishes and Cognitive Linguistics (Frank Polzenhagen and Hans-Georg Wolf)
- Social Context
- 9. World Englishes, Second Language Acquisition, and Language Contact (Rajend Mesthrie)
- 10. World Englishes and Creoles (Don Winford)
- 11. World Englishes, Code-Switching, and Convergence (Barbara Bullock, Lars Hinrichs and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio)
- 12. World Englishes and Sociolinguistic Theory (Devyani Sharma)
- 13. World Englishes and Dialectology (Lieselotte Anderwald)
- 14. World Englishes, Pragmatics, and Discourse (Yamuna Kachru)
- 15. World Englishes and Language Ideologies (Rakesh Bhatt)
- 16. English, Language Dominance, and Ecolinguistic Diversity Maintenance (Robert Phillipson and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas)
- PART III: AREAL PROFILES
- 17. The Atlantic Archipelago of the British Isles (Karen Corrigan)
- 18. English in North America (Lauren Hall-Lew)
- 19. The Caribbean (Véronique Lacoste)
- 20. Australian and New Zealand Englishes (Laurie Bauer)
- 21. South Asia (Ravinder Gargesh and Pingali Sailaja)
- 22. Southeast Asia (Lisa Lim)
- 23. East African English (Josef Schmied)
- 24. English in West Africa (Ulrike Gut)
- 25. English in South Africa (Bertus van Rooy)
- 26. Isolated Varieties (Daniel Schreier and Danae Perez Inofuentes)
- 27. English as a Lingua Franca in the Expanding Circle (Jennifer Jenkins)
- PART IV: CASE STUDIES
- 28. On the Intonation of Tonal of English (Carlos Gussenhoven)
- 29. Emergence of the Unmarked in Indian Englishes with Different Substrates (Caroline R. Wiltshire)
- 30. The Systemic Nature of Substratum Transfer (Bao Zhiming)
- 31. Convergent Developments between 'Old' and 'New' Englishes (Markku Filppula)
- 32. Retention and Innovation in Settler Englishes (Raymond Hickey)
- 33. Embedded Inversion as an Angloversal: Evidence from Inner, Outer, and Expanding Circle Englishes (Lea Meriläinen and Heli Paulasto)
- 34. Canonical Tag Questions in Asian Englishes: Forms, Functions, and Frequencies in Hong Kong English, Indian English, and Singapore English (Sebastian Hoffmann, Anne-Katrin Blass and Joybrato Mukherjee)
- 35. Are Constructions Dialect-Proof? The Challenge of English Variational Data for Construction Grammar Research (Debra Ziegeler)
- 36. Second-Order Language Contact: English as an Academic Lingua Franca (Anna Mauranen)
