PART I: FOUNDATIONS
1. Introduction (Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola & 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 & Julia Davydova)
8. World Englishes and Cognitive Linguistics (Frank Polzenhagen &
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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 Varieties 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 & 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 & 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)
Markku Filppula is Professor Emeritus of English Language at the
University of Eastern Finland. He is the author of The Grammar of
Irish English: Language in Hibernian Style (1999), and co-author of
English and Celtic in Contact (2008). He is co-editor of The Celtic
Roots of English (2002), Dialects Across Borders (2005), Vernacular
Universals and Language Contacts (2009), The Oxford Handbook of
World Englishes (2017), and Changing English: global and local
perspectives (2017).
Juhani Klemola is Professor Emeritus of English Philology at
Tampere University. His research interests are in dialect syntax,
contact linguistics, and historical dialectology. He is co-author
of English and Celtic in Contact (2008), and co-editor of a number
of publications, including Corpora and the Changing Society:
Studies in the evolution of English (2020), Changing English:
global and local perspectives (2017), and Vernacular Universals
and
Language Contacts: Evidence from Varieties of English and Beyond
(2009).
Devyani Sharma is Professor of Sociolinguistics at Queen Mary,
University of London. Her research deals with dialect variation in
postcolonial and other Englishes, sociolinguistics, bilingualism,
language contact, typology, and syntax. She is the author of From
Deficit to Dialect: The Evolution of English in India and Singapore
(Oxford University Press 2023), and co-editor of Research Methods
in Linguistics (Cambridge University Press 2013) and English in
the Indian Diaspora (Benjamins 2014).
"This handbook comprises 36 essays (many accessible to readers without formal training in linguistics) on varieties of English around the world... Uniformly sophisticated and up-to-date, the essays are illustrated with useful figures, charts, and maps. Summing Up: Recommended." --E. L. Battistella, Southern Oregon University, Choice
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