Full Description
This volume offers in-depth coverage of varieties of English across the world, outside of the British and North American arenas. Introductory chapters deal with the colonial transportation of English overseas and the generic types of English which resulted: first-language, second-language and foreign-language varieties, often subsumed under the label 'World Englishes'. English-lexifier pidgins and creoles are also examined. The remaining chapters treat forms of English in large geographical regions of the world. Anglophone Africa divides into three blocks, west, east and south, each with different linguistic ecologies determined by history and demography. Asia, especially South Asia and South-East Asia, is similar in the kinds of English it now shows. In recent decades, the significance of East Asia for varieties of English has increased given the economic development of China and the status of other Asian nations, such as South Korea and Japan.
Contents
General editor's introduction Raymond Hickey; Introduction to Volume VI Raymond Hickey; Part I. The Spread of English Overseas: 1. Transported English in the colonial period Raymond Hickey; 2. Modelling the formation and developmental trajectories of varieties of English Edgar W. Schneider; 3. Towards a history of world Englishes Rajend Mesthrie; 4. English as a second and foreign language Andy Kirkpatrick; 5. Pidgins and creoles in the history of English John McWhorter; Part II. Africa: II.I West Africa: 6. English and Krio in Sierra Leone Kofi Yakpo, Malcolm Finney and Saidu Bangura; 7. English in Liberia John Singler; 8. English in Ghana Thorsten Brato; 9. English in Nigeria Ulrike Gut and Foluke Unuabonah; 10. English in Cameroon Hans-Georg Wolf and Eric Anchimbe; II.II East Africa: 11. English in Kenya and Tanzania Josef Schmied; 12. English in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan Christiane Meierkord, Bebwa Isingoma and Anne Marie Kagwesage; II.III Southern Africa: 13. The anglophone settlement of South Africa Ian Bekker and Kara Schultz; 14. English of the Black population of South Africa Rajend Mesthrie and Bertus Van Rooy; 15. English of Afrikaans speakers Bertus Van Rooy and Ronel Wasserman; 16. English of the Indian population of South Africa Rajend Mesthrie; 17. English in Namibia Sarah Buschfeld; 18. English in Zimbabwe Susan Fitzmaurice; Part III. The South Atlantic: 19. South Atlantic English Daniel Schreier; 20. The English of the Falkland Islands David Britain, Hannah Hedegard and Andrea Sudbury; Index.
