This title presents an alternative paradigm in understanding and appreciating world English in the wake of globalization and its accompanying shifting priorities in many dimensions of modern life, including the emergence of the English language as the dominant lingua franca.
This book presents an alternative paradigm in understanding and appreciating World Englishes in the wake of globalization and its accompanying shifting priorities in many dimensions of modern life, including the emergence of the English language as the dominant lingua franca.
A handbook of varieties of English
Communities of practice in the history of English
Communities of practice in the history of English
Languages change and they keep changing as a result of communicative interactions and practices in the context of communities of language users. The articles in this volume showcase a range of such communities and their practices as loci of language change in the history of Engl…