Full Description
This volume offers in-depth coverage of varieties of English across the world, outside of the British and North American arenas. It is split into two parts, with Part 1 dedicated to varieties of English across Africa, and Part 2 looking at varieties in Asia, and Australia and the Pacific. There are introductory chapters dealing with the colonial transportation of English overseas, and the generic types of English which resulted, often labelled World Englishes, and examinations of English-lexifier pidgins and creoles. The remaining sections look at different geographic regions. 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, with the significance of East Asia for varieties of English increasing in recent years. Varieties of English in Australia and the Pacific are also examined.
Contents
General Editor's introduction Raymond Hickey; Introduction to Volume VI Raymond Hickey; Part I. Asia: I.I South Asia: 1. English in India Claudia Lange and Robert Fuchs; 2. English in Pakistan Muhammad Shakir and Dagmar Deuber; 3. Sri Lankan English Tobias Bernaisch; I.II East Asia: 4. English in mainland China Kingsley Bolton and Wei Zhang; 5. Hong Kong English: from colonial to postcolonial English Kingsley Bolton; 6. English in Korea Sofia Rüdiger; 7. English in Japan Toshiko Yamaguchi; I.III South-East Asia: 8. English in Singapore Jakob Leimgruber; 9. English in Brunei and Malaysia David Deterding and Nur Raihan Mohamad; 10. English within and beyond the Philippines Isabel Pefianco Martín and Julius C. Martinez; Part II. Australasia: II.I Australia: 11. Australian English Kate Burridge and Pam Peters; 12. Australian creoles Sally Dixon; 13. Australian Aboriginal English Celeste Rodriguez Louro, Glenys Collard and Madeleine Clews; II.II New Zealand: 14. New Zealand English Lynn Clark, Andreea S. Calude and Jennifer Hay; 15. Māori and Pasifika Englishes in New Zealand Anita Szakay and Andy Gibson; Part III. The Pacific: 16. Pidgin and English in Hawai'i James Grama, Michelle Kamigaki-Baron and Katie Drager; 17. English in Micronesia David Britain and Kazuko Matsumoto; 18. Melanesian pidgin, Tok Pisin and English in Papua New Guinea Craig Volker; 19. English in the South Pacific Carolin Biewer.
