The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of contributors
Introduction
Section 1 Historical perspectives and traditional Englishes
	1 Standardized English: The history of the earlier circles
	2 Grammatical variation in the contemporary spoken English of England
	3 Phonological innovation in contemporary spoken British English
	4 The Englishes of Ireland: Emergence, transportation and current trends
	5 The development of Standard American English
	6 The Englishes of Canada
	7 English in Australia
	8 The English(es) of New Zealand
Section 2 Regional varieties
	9 The development of the English language in India
	10 Sri Lankan Englishes
	11 English in education in Bangladesh: World Englishes perspectives
	12 East and West African Englishes: Differences and commonalities
	13 Spread of English at the grassroots? Sociolinguistic evidence from two post-protectorates: Maldives and Uganda
	14 South African Englishes
	15 Chinese English: A future power?
	16 Periphery English language teaching: Myths about English in the Philippines
	17 English in Singapore and Malaysia differences and similarities
	18 English in Japan
	19 Slavic Englishes: Education or culture?
	20 West Indian English: An introduction to literature in selected varieties
	21 English and English teaching in Colombia: Tensions and possibilities in the expanding circle
Section 3 Emerging trends and themes
	22 English as a lingua franca in the European context
	23 Developmental patterns of English: Similar or different?
	24 Mixed codes or varieties of English?
	25 Semantic and pragmatic conceptualisations within an emerging variety: Persian English
	26 In defence of foreignness
	27 World Englishes, social disharmonisation, and environmental destruction
Section 4 Contemporary contexts, functions and variables
	28 Online Englishes
	29 The Englishes of business
	30 The increasing use of English medium instruction in higher education
	31 The Englishes of popular culture
	32 World Englishes and Philippine call centres
	33 Translanguaging and multilingual creativity with English in the Sinophone world
	34 ‘Brexit’ and the postnational dimension of English in Europe
Section 5 Debates and pedagogical implications
	35 Variation across Englishes: Phonology
	36 English language teachers in context: Who teaches what, where and why?
	37 When does an unconventional form become an innovation?
	38 Which test of which English and why?
	39 Academic Englishes: A standardised knowledge?
Section 6 The future
	40 The future of Englishes: One, many or none?
Index