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 1 dedicated to varieties of English across Africa, and Part 2 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. Asia: I.I South Asia:
1. English in India Claudia
Lange and Robert Fuchs;
2. English in Pakistan Muhammad Shakir and Dagmar
Deuber;
3. Sri Lankan English Tobias Bernaisch; I.II East Asia:
4. English in
mainland China Kingsley Bolton and Wei Zhang;
5. Hong Kong English: from
colonial to postcolonial English Kingsley Bolton;
6. English in Korea Sofia
Rüdiger;
7. English in Japan Toshiko Yamaguchi; I.III SouthEast Asia:
8.
English in Singapore Jakob Leimgruber;
9. English in Brunei and Malaysia
David Deterding and Nur Raihan Mohamad;
10. English within and beyond the
Philippines Isabel Pefianco Martín and Julius C. Martinez; Part II.
Australasia: II.I Australia:
11. Australian English Kate Burridge and Pam
Peters;
12. Australian creoles Sally Dixon;
13. Australian Aboriginal English
Celeste Rodriguez Louro, Glenys Collard and Madeleine Clews; II.II New
Zealand:
14. New Zealand English Lynn Clark, Andreea S. Calude and Jennifer
Hay;
15. Mori and Pasifika Englishes in New Zealand Anita Szakay and Andy
Gibson; Part III. The Pacific:
16. Pidgin and English in Hawai'i James Grama,
Michelle KamigakiBaron and Katie Drager;
17. English in Micronesia David
Britain and Kazuko Matsumoto;
18. Melanesian pidgin, Tok Pisin and English in
Papua New Guinea Craig Volker;
19. English in the South Pacific Carolin
Biewer.
Raymond Hickey is Adjunct Professor at the University of Limerick, Ireland, and former Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Duisburg-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).
