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 one dedicated to varieties of English across Africa, and Part two 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.
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A full overview of varieties of English in Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific, highlighting their histories and development.
General editor's introduction Raymond Hickey; Introduction to Volume VI
Raymond Hickey; Part I. The Spread of English Overseas:
1. Transported
English in the colonial period Raymond Hickey;
2. Modelling the formation and
developmental trajectories of varieties of English Edgar W. Schneider;
3.
Towards a history of world Englishes Rajend Mesthrie;
4. English as a second
and foreign language Andy Kirkpatrick;
5. Pidgins and creoles in the history
of English John McWhorter; Part II. Africa: II.I West Africa:
6. English and
Krio in Sierra Leone Kofi Yakpo, Malcolm Finney and Saidu Bangura;
7. English
in Liberia John Singler;
8. English in Ghana Thorsten Brato;
9. English in
Nigeria Ulrike Gut and Foluke Unuabonah;
10. English in Cameroon HansGeorg
Wolf and Eric Anchimbe; II.II East Africa:
11. English in Kenya and Tanzania
Josef Schmied;
12. English in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic
Republic of Congo and South Sudan Christiane Meierkord, Bebwa Isingoma and
Anne Marie Kagwesage; II.III Southern Africa:
13. The anglophone settlement
of South Africa Ian Bekker and Kara Schultz;
14. English of the Black
population of South Africa Rajend Mesthrie and Bertus Van Rooy;
15. English
of Afrikaans speakers Bertus Van Rooy and Ronel Wasserman;
16. English of the
Indian population of South Africa Rajend Mesthrie;
17. English in Namibia
Sarah Buschfeld;
18. English in Zimbabwe Susan Fitzmaurice; Part III. The
South Atlantic:
19. South Atlantic English Daniel Schreier;
20. The English
of the Falkland Islands David Britain, Hannah Hedegard and Andrea Sudbury;
Index.
Raymond Hickey is Adjunct Professor at the University of Limerick, Ireland and former Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Duisburg and Essen, Germany. His recent publications include Listening to the Past (2017), The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics (2017), English in Multilingual South Africa (2020), The Handbook of Language Contact (2020), Sounds of English Worldwide (2023) and The Oxford Handbook of Irish English (2024).
