The Oxford Handbook of World Englishes

by Filppula, Markku; Klemola, Juhani; Sharma, Devyani

• ISBN13: 9780197766491
• ISBN10: 0197766498
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2023-12-08
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

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 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)