Full Description
Professor Braj Kachru (b. 1932) has pioneered, shaped and defined the scholarly field of world Englishes. He is the founder and co-editor of World Englishes, the associate editor of the Oxford Companion to the English Language and contributor to the Cambridge History of the English Language. His research on world Englishes, the Kashmiri language and literature, and theoretical and applied studies on language and society has resulted in more than 25 authored and edited volumes and more than 100 research papers, review articles, and reviews.
The second volume of these Collected Works contains selections of some of Kachru's most important work in the field of World Englishes from the years between the 1992 and 2001.
Contents
Acknowledgements
1. The Second Diaspora of English (1992)
2. New Englishes (1994)
3. The Speaking Tree: a Medium of Plural Canons (1995)
4. Transcultural creativity in World Englishes and literary Canons (1995)
5. World Englishes (1996)
6. The Paradigms of Marginality (1996)
7. English as Lingua Franca (1996)
8. World Englishes 2000: Resources for research and teaching (1997)
9. World Englishes and culture wars (2001)
Bibliography
Index
