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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Handbooks and manuals Handboeken (vorm) |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Handbook of world Englishes. Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2006 (DLC) 2005034554 (OCoLC)62342809 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Braj B Kachru; Yamuna Kachru; Cecil L Nelson |
ISBN: | 9781405178365 1405178361 9781405111850 1405111852 9781405164306 1405164301 9780470757598 0470757590 1280850884 9781280850882 1780342365 9781780342368 9786610850884 6610850887 0470796871 9780470796870 |
OCLC Number: | 150843967 |
Language Note: | English. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 811 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | pt. 1 The historical context -- pt. 2 Variational contexts -- pt 3. Acculturation -- pt. 4 Crossing borders -- pt. 5 Grammar wars and standards -- pt. 6 Ideology, Identity, and constructs -- pt. 7 World Englishes and globalization -- pt. 8 World Englishes and applied theory -- p t. 9 Resources on world Englishes. |
Series Title: | Blackwell handbooks in linguistics. |
Responsibility: | edited by Braj B. Kachru, Yamuna Kachru, Cecil L. Nelson. |
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Abstract:
The Handbook of World Englishes is a collection of newly commissioned articles focusing on selected critical dimensions and case studies of the theoretical, ideological, applied and pedagogical issues related to English as it is spoken around the world.
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"The appetite of many language scholars and students will be satiated with this collection of papers devoted to the exploration of 'World Englishes' ... .[The book] displays for the most part: accessibility; authority; contemporaneity and interdisciplinarity." (Language Policy, August 2007) "A milestone in the study of World Englishes." (Linguistics) Read more...

