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World Englishes

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Acknowledgements
Preface and acknowledgements to second edition

A Introduction: key topics in World Englishes
1. The historical, social and political context
2. The origins of pidgin and creole languages
3. Who speaks English today?
4. Variation across Outer Circle Englishes
5. Standard language ideology in the Inner Circle
6. The spread of English as an international lingua franca
7. The roles of English in Asia and Europe
8. The future of World Englishes

B Development: Implications and issues
1. The legacy of colonialism
2. Characteristics of pidgins and creoles
3. The English Today debate
4. The legitimate and illegitimate offspring of English
5. Standards across space
6. Native and non-native speakers of English
7. En route to new standard Englishes
8. Possible future scenarios

C Exploration: current debates in World Englishes
1. Postcolonial America and Africa
2. Creole developments in the UK and US
3. Teaching and testing World Englishes
4. Emerging ‘sub’-varieties
5. Standards across channels
6. The nature of English as a Lingua Franca
7. Asian Englishes in the Outer and Expanding Circles
8. Language killer or language promoter?

D Extension: readings in World Englishes
1. The discourses of postcolonialism (Alastair Pennycook)
2. The status of pidgins and creoles in education (Charles Alobwede d’Epie)
3. Who owns English today? (Henry Widdowson)
4. From language to literature (Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong’o)
5. Is language (still) power? (Lesley Milroy, Alfred Lee, Dennis Bloodworth)
6. Positioning English as a Lingua Franca (Barbara Seidlhofer)
7. Attitudes to local norms in the Expanding Circle (Hu Xiao Qiong, Ulrich Ammon)
8. Looking ahead … (David Graddol, David Crystal)

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