World Englishes: Critical Concepts in Linguistics, Volume 2Kingsley Bolton, Braj B. Kachru |
Contents
Standard English in Jamaica a case of competing models | 5 |
Reexamining Caribbean English creole continua | 17 |
English in the SubSaharan linguistic landscape beginning of millennium observations | 76 |
An account of distinctive phonetic and lexical features of Gambian English | 89 |
English in the Nigerian environment | 105 |
Towards a grammar of proto South African English | 120 |
The lexis of South African English reflections of a multilingual society | 146 |
Black South African English where to from here? | 163 |
English in South Asia | 255 |
Indian English some myths some realities | 311 |
English as an Asian language | 324 |
Which language which culture regional Englishes in contemporary Asia | 343 |
The range and depth of Englishknowing bilinguals in Singapore | 352 |
The situation of English Singapore | 369 |
Malaysian English status norms some grammatical and lexical features | 390 |
The sociolinguistics of Hong Kong and the space for Hong Kong English | 418 |
English in Zimbabwe Zambia and Malawi | 181 |
What do we really know about Kenyan English? A pilot study in research methodology | 200 |
Assessing the state of Ugandan English an account of the nature and key features of an East African variety | 216 |
East and Southern African English accents | 226 |
The indigenization of English in Pakistan | 245 |
The social dimensions of Philippine English | 445 |
The lexicon of Philippine English | 457 |
The verb in Philippine English a preliminary analysis of modal would | 479 |
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