World Englishes

by Rakesh M. Bhatt, Rajend Mesthrie, Rakesh Mohan Bhatt

Book Overview

The spread of English around the world has been and continues to be both rapid and unpredictable. World Englishes: The Study of New Linguistic Varieties deals with this inescapable result of colonisation and globalisation from a social and linguistic perspective. The main focus of the book is on the second-language varieties of English that have developed in the former British colonies of East and West Africa, the Caribbean, South and South-East Asia...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521797330
• ISBN13: 9780521797337
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.4"