The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes

A comprehensive, state-of-the-art survey of research on World Englishes by a team of leading experts in the field.

Daniel Schreier (Edited by), Marianne Hundt (Edited by), Edgar W. Schneider (Edited by)

9781108441957, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 September 2022

729 pages, 20 b/w illus. 5 maps 18 tables
24.4 x 17 x 3.7 cm, 1.147 kg

'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

The 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.

1. 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.

Subject Areas: Historical & comparative linguistics [CFF], Sociolinguistics [CFB]