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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: xix, 811 p. : ill (DLC) 2005034554 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Braj B Kachru; Yamuna Kachru; Cecil L Nelson |
ISBN: | 9781780342368 1780342365 |
OCLC Number: | 755169106 |
Description: | 1 online resource (61 entries) : 16 images, digital files. |
Contents: | The Beginnings / Robert D. King -- First Steps : Wales and Ireland / Robert D. King -- English in Scotland / Fiona Douglas -- English in North America / Edgar W. Schneider -- English in Australia and New Zealand / Scott F. Kiesling -- South Asian Englishes / Ravinder Gargesh -- East Asian Englishes / Nobuyuki Honna -- Southeast Asian Englishes / Maria Lourdes S. Bautista and Andrew B. Gonzalez -- South American Englishes / Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu -- West African Englishes / Tope Omoniyi -- East African Englishes / Josef Schmied -- Caribbean Englishes / Michael Aceto -- Euro-Englishes / Marko Modiano -- World Englishes Today / Kingsley Bolton -- Contact Linguistics and World Englishes / Rajend Mesthrie -- Varieties of Englishes / Kingsley Bolton -- Creoles and Pidgins / Salikoko S. Mufwene -- African American Englishes / Walt Wolfram -- Written Language, Standard Language, global language / M.A.K. Halliday -- Speaking and Writing in World Englishes / Yamuna Kachru -- Genres and Styles in World Englishes / Vijay K. Bhatia -- The Literary Creativity in World Englishes / Edwin Thumboo -- World Englishes and Issues of Intelligibility / Larry E. Smith and Cecil L. -- World Englishes and Culture Wars / Braj B. Kachru -- Grammar Wars : 17th and 18th Century / Linda C. Mitchell England -- Grammar Wars : the United States / John Algeo -- World Englishes and Descriptive grammars / Daniel R. Davis -- Colonial/Postcolonial Critique : The Challenge from World Englishes / Pradeep A. Dhillon -- Cultural Studies and Discursive Constructions of World Englishes / Wimal Dissanayake -- World Englishes and Gender Identities / Tamara M. Valentine -- World Englishes in the Media / Elizabeth A. Martin -- World Englishes in Global Advertising / Tej K. Bhatia -- World Englishes and Global Commerce / Stanley Yunick Van Horn -- A Recurring Decimal : English in Language policy and planning / Ayo Bamgbos -- Teaching World Englishes / Robert J. Baumgardner -- Models, Methods and Curriculum for ELT preparation / Kimberley Brown -- World Englishes and Lexicography / Fredric Dolezal -- World Englishes and Test Construction / Fred Davidson -- World Englishes and Communicative competence / Margie Berns -- World Englishes and Corpora Studies / Gerald Nelson -- Comparing World Englishes : A Research guide / Helen Fallon. |
Series Title: | Blackwell handbooks in linguistics. |
Responsibility: | edited by Braj B. Kachru, Yamuna Kachru, Cecil L. Nelson. |
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...
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