The Oxford Handbook of World Englishes

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

• ISBN13: 9780199985036
• ISBN10: 0199985030
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2017-03-06
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Markku Filppula is Professor of English at the University of Eastern Finland. His research has focused on present-day and past varieties of English spoken in the British Isles and World Englishes. He is the author of The Grammar of Irish English: Language in Hibernian Style (Routledge, 1999), and co-author of English and Celtic in Contact (Routledge, 2008). He is co-editor of The Celtic Roots of English (University of Joensuu Press, 2002), Dialects Across Borders (Benjamins, 2005), and Vernacular Universals and Language Contacts (Routledge, 2009).

Juhani Klemola is Professor of English Philology at the University of Tampere. His teaching and research interests are in dialect syntax, contact linguistics, and historical dialectology. Dr Klemola is co-author of English and Celtic in Contact (2008), and co-editor of a number of publications, including Vernacular Universals and Language Contacts: Evidence from Varieties of English and Beyond (2009), Types of Variation: Diachronic, Dialectal and Typological Interfaces (2006), Dialects Across Borders (2005) and The Celtic Roots of English (2002).

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 has recently co-edited 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 (V?ronique 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 Varieties 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 Meril?inen & 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)