Full Description
World Englishes presents a comprehensive, detailed description of English varieties spoken worldwide. The volumes in this set focus on the varieties of English spoken in the British Isles, North America and Central America. Illustrated by maps, each chapter includes detailed linguistic descriptions of grammar components, demographic data, and the historical and sociocultural background of the geographical regions.
Contents
I
Acknowledgements
Contributors
List of Maps
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Introduction, John McKenny
1. Historical Perspectives on the Development of English, Paul Cavill
2. Englishes of London and the Southeast of England, Joanna Ryfa
3. Yorkshire English, Barry J. H. Rawling
4. North East Dialect, the late Bill Griffiths
5. West Midlands English, Steve Thorne
6. South West English, Susanne Wagner
7. English in Scotland, John Corbett and Jane Stuart-Smith
8. North West English, Phillip Tipton
9. English in Wales, Heli Paulasto
10. English in Ireland, John Wilson and Sharon Millar
11. The Isle of Man, Andrew Hamer
12. English in Orkney and Shetland Islands, Klaske van Leyden
13. English in the Channel Islands, Heinrich Ramish
Index
II.
Acknowledgements
Contributors
List of Maps
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Series Preface
Introduction: English Spreads to North America, Tometro Hopkins
1. English in Canada, Jack Chambers
2 White Varieties of English in the American South, Ellen Johnson
3. Texas Afro-Seminole Creole, Ian F. Hancock
4. Midwest American English, Beth Lee Simon
5. Chicano English, Carmen Fought
6. American American English, Charles E. DeBose
7. English in the American West, Lamont D. Antieau
8. Alaska Englishes, Patricia Kwachka
Index
III.
Central America
Maps
Preface, Tometro Hopkins
List of Contributors
Introduction, Ken Decker
Belize Kriol, Ken Decker
English in Panama, Peter Snow
English in Mexico, Robert Baumgartner
English of the Bay Islands of Honduras, Ken Decker and Lee Henriksen
English in the Colombian Archipelago of San Andres, Marcia L. Dittmann
Limonese Creole English, Elizabeth Grace Winkler
Nicaragua Kriol, Guillermo McLean and Arja Koskinen
Bay Islands English, Ross Graham
Index
