World Englishes

<p>In this book leading scholars in the field of World Englishes (WE) offer fresh perspectives in re-thinking issues on the use of English as a global language in an interconnected world. Established as a legitimate field of study WE offers a conceptual framework which has influenced scholarship in many related disciplines: contact linguistics postcolonial Englishes English as a lingua franca English as an international language and applied linguistics. This seminal volume will have an excellent balance between theoretical and empirical works focusing on scholarship that has arisen in relation to the Kachruvian Three Concentric Circles model.</p><p></p><p>This book covers topics such as state-of-the-art review of WE WE and contact linguistics post-colonial Englishes English as a Lingua Franca English as an International Language WE and applied linguistics language measurement and testing in WE language policy and management language education and dynamic ecologies language typology WE as a new canon WE and corpus linguistics WE and multimodalities and makes predictions about the future of WE. It contains a comprehensive and up-to-date bibliography of major works published in the field.</p>