Kachru / Nelson The Handbook of World Englishes

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-7836-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 832 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics

The Handbook of World Englishes is a collection of newlycommissioned articles focusing on selected critical dimensions andcase studies of the theoretical, ideological, applied andpedagogical issues related to English as it is spoken around theworld.
* Represents the cross-cultural and internationalcontextualization of the English language
* Articulates the visions of scholars from major varieties ofworld Englishes - African, Asian, European, and North andSouth American
* Discusses topics including the sociolinguistic contexts ofvarieties of English in the inner, outer, and expanding circles ofits users; the ranges of functional domains in which thesevarieties are used; the place of English in language policies andlanguage planning; and debates about English as a cause of languagedeath, murder and suicide.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kachru, Braj

Kachru, Braj B.

Kachru, Yamuna

Nelson, Cecil

Nelson, Cecil L.

Über Autor(innen)

Braj B. Kachru is Centre for Advanced Study EmeritusProfessor of Linguistics and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts andSciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He isco-founder and co-editor of the journal World Englishes,published by Wiley-Blackwell.
Yamuna Kachru is Professor Emerita in the Department ofLinguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Shehas authored and edited over a dozen books and monographs andpublished over a hundred papers and reviews on South Asianlanguages, cross-cultural discourse, and communicative styles inworld Englishes.
Cecil L. Nelson is Professor of Linguistics in theDepartment of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at IndianaState University, Terre Haute. He is the review editor of thejournal World Englishes and co-authored, with Yamuna Kachru,World Englishes in Asian Contexts (2006).