TY - BOOK AU - Kirkpatrick,Andy TI - The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes SN - 9780415622646 (pbk) PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - English language KW - Variation KW - English-speaking countries KW - Foreign countries KW - Dialects N1 - First published in 2010; Available in print and electronic formats; Includes bibliographical references and index; "The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes constitutes a comprehensive introduction to the study of world Englishes, drawing on the expertise of leading authors within the field; The handbook is structured in six sections covering historical perspectives, core issues and topics and new debates which together provide a thorough overview of the field, taking into account the new directions in which the discipline is heading; Among the key themes covered are the development of English as a lingua franca among speakers for whom English is a common but not first language, the parallel development of English as a medium of instruction in educational institutions throughout the world and the role of English as the international language of scholarship and scholarly publishing, as well as the development of computer-mediated Englishes, including cyberprose. The handbook also includes a substantial introduction from the editor." (Book Cover); CONTENTS; SECTION I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES AND "TRADITIONAL" ENGLISHES; 1. Standardized English: the history of the earlier circles /; Daniel R. Davis; 2. Grammatical variation in the contemporary spoken English of England /; David Britain; 3. Phonological innovation in the contemporary spoken British English /; Gerard J. Docherty; 4. The Englishes of Ireland: emergence and transportation /; Raymond Hickey; 5. The development of Standard American English /; Wiliam A. Kretzschmar, Jr; 6. The Englishes of Canada /; Stephen Levey; 7. English in Australia /; Kate Burridge; 8. The English(es) of New Zealand /; Margaret Maclagan; SECTION II: REGIONAL VARIETIES AND THE 'NEW' ENGLISHES; 9. The development of the English language in India /; Joybrato Mukherjee; 10. Sri Lankan Englishes /; Dushyanthi Mendis and Harshana Rambukwella; 11. East and West African Englishes: differences and commonalities /; Hans-Georg Wolf; 12. The development of English in Botswana: language policy and education /; Birgit Smieja and Joyce T. Mathangwane; 13. English in Singapore and Malaysia: differences and similarities /; Low Ee Ling; 14. Periphery ELT: the politics and practice of teaching English in the Philippines /; Isabel Pefianco Martin; 15. East Asian Englishes: Japan and Korea /; Yuko Takeshita; 16. Chinese English: a future power? /; Xu Zhichang; 17. Slavic Englishes: education or culture? /; Zoya Proshina; 18. West Indian Englishes: an introduction to literature written in selected varieties /; Hazel Simmons-McDonald; 19. English and English teaching in Columbia: tensions and possibilities in the expanding circle /; Adriana Gonzalez; SECTION III: EMERGING TRENDS AND THEMES; 20. Lingua franca English: the European context /; Barbara Seidlhofer; 21. Development patterns of English: similar or different? /; Edgar W. Schneider; 22. Variation across Englishes: phonology /; David Deterding; 23. Variation across Englishes: syntax /; Bernd Kortmann; 24. Mixed codes or varieties of English? /; James McLellan; 25. Semantics and pragmatic conceptualizations within an emerging variety: Persian English; Farzad Sharifian; SECTION IV: CONTEMPORARY CONTEXTS AND FUNCTIONS; 26. In defense of foreignness /; Ha Jin; 27. Writing in English(es) /; Tope Omoniyi; 28. Online Englishes /; Mark Warschauer, Rebecca Black, and Yen-Lin Chou; 29. The Englishes of business /; Catherine Nickerson; 30. Englishes in advertising /; Azirah Hashim; 31. The Englishes of popular cultures /; Andrew Moody; 32. 'Thank you for calling': Asian Englishes and 'native-like' performance in Asian call centres /; Kingsley Bolton; SECTION V: DEBATES AND PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS; 33. Which norms in everyday practice: and why? /; T. Ruanni F. Tupas; 34. Construing meaning in World Englishes /; Ahmar Mahboob and Eszter Szenes; 35. Which test of which English and why? /; Brian Tomlinson; 36. When does an unconventional form become an innovation? /; David C.S. Li; 37. Academic Englishes: a standardized knowledge? /; Anne Mauranen, Carmen Perez-Llantada, and John M. Swales; 38. Cameroon: which language, when and why? /; Augustin Simo Bobda; SECTION VI: THE FUTURE; 39. The future of Englishes: one, many or more? /; Alastair Pennycook; The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes is the ideal resource for postgraduate students of applied linguistics as well as those in related degrees such as applied English language and TESOL/TEFL UR - https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-World-Englishes/Kirkpatrick/p/book/9780415622646 UR - https://ocul-uo.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_UO/s28b5q/alma991045026103905161 ER -