Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. World Englishes: an introduction / Daniel Schreier, Marianne Hund t and Edgar W. Schneider -- Part I. The making of Englishes: 2. The co lonial and post-colonial expansion of English / Raymond Hickey -- 3. Th eoretical models of English as a world language / Sarah Buschfeld and A lexander Kautzsch -- 4. The contribution of language contact to the eme rgence of World Englishes / Lisa Lim -- 5. Population Structure and the Emergence of World Englishes / Salikoko S. Mufwene -- 6. World English es, migration, and diaspora / Lena Zipp -- Part II. World Englishes old and new: 7. A sociolinguistic ecology of colonial Britain / David Bri tain -- 8. English in North America / Merja Kytö -- 9. English in the Caribbean and the Central American rim / Michael Aceto -- 10. English in Africa / Bertus van Rooy -- 11. English in South Asia / Claudia Lan ge -- 12. English in South-East Asia / Lionel Wee -- 13. World English es Old and New: English in Australasia and the South Pacific / Carolin Biewer and Kate Burridge -- Part III. Linguistics and World Englishes: 14. The global growth of English at the grassroots / Christiane Meierk ord -- 15. Beyond English as a second or foreign language: Local uses a nd the cultural politics of identification / Alison Edwards and Philip Seargeant -- 16. World Englishes in cyberspace / Christian Mair -- 17. World Englishes and their dialect roots / Daniel Schreier -- 18. Lexic ography and World Englishes / James Lambert -- 19. The relevance of Wor ld Englishes for variationist sociolinguistics / Alexandra D'Arcy -- 20 . Multilingualism and the World Englishes / Sue Fox -- 21. Unearthing t he diachrony of World Englishes / Magnus Huber -- 22. Corpus-based appr oaches to World Englishes / Marianne Hundt -- 23. World Englishes from the perspective of dialect typology / Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Melanie Röthlisberger -- 24. Language Acquisition and World Englishes / Sarah Buschfeld -- Part IV. Current challenges: 25. Norms and Standards in World Englishes / Pam Peters -- 26. Identity and indexicality in the st udy of World Englishes / Erik Schleef -- 27. The politics of World Engl ishes / Mario Saraceni -- 28. World Englishes in the media / Andrew Moo dy -- 29. World Englishes and transnationalism / Brook Bolander -- Inde x.

"The plural form 'Englishes' conveys the diversity of English as a g lobal language, pinpointing the growth and existence of a large number of national, regional and social forms. The global spread of English an d the new varieties that have emerged around the world has grown to be a vast area of study and research, which intersects multiple discipline s. This Handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of W orld Englishes from 1600 to the present day. Covering topics such as va riationist sociolinguistics, pragmatics, contact linguistics, linguisti c anthropology, corpus- and applied linguistics and language history, i t combines discussion of traditional topics with a variety of innovativ e approaches. The chapters, all written by internationally-acclaimed au thorities, provide up-to-date discussions of the evolution of different Englishes around the globe, a comprehensive coverage of different mode ls and approaches, and some original perspectives on current challenges "-- Provided by publisher.