1. Introduction Jeffrey P. Williams, Edgar W. Schneider, Peter Trudgill and Daniel Schreier; Part I. Europe: 2. Maltese English Manfred Krug; 3. Gibraltar English David Levey; 4. Irish travellers' English Maria Rieder; Part II. The Americas: 5. American Indian English Elizabeth Coggshall; 6. Bequia English Miriam Meyerhoff and James Walker; 7. Saban English Jeffrey P. Williams and Caroline Myrick; 8. St Eustatius English Michael Aceto; 9. The English of Gustavia, St Barthélemy Ken Decker; 10. Anglo-Paraguayan English Danae M. Perez-Inofuentes; 11. Afro-Seminole English Ian Hancock; Part III. Asia and the Pacific: 12. Palmerston (Cook Islands) English Rachel Hendrey; 13. Pasifika English in New Zealand Allan Bell, Andy Gibson and Donna Starks; 14. Palauan English Kazuko Matsumoto and David Britain.
This book documents the lesser-known varieties of English which have been overlooked and understudied within the canon of English linguistics.
Jeffrey P. Williams is Professor of Anthropology at Texas Tech University. He previously taught at the University of Sydney and Cleveland State University. Most recently he edited The Aesthetics of Grammar: Sound and Meaning in the Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia (Cambridge, 2014). Edgar W. Schneider is Professor and Chair of English Linguistics at Universität Regensburg, Germany. He has published and lectured on all continents on topics in the dialectology, sociolinguistics, history, and semantics of English and its varieties. He edited the scholarly journal English World-Wide for many years and has written and edited about twenty books, including Handbook of Varieties of English (2004, 2008), Postcolonial English (Cambridge, 2007) and English around the World (Cambridge, 2011).
'[Further Studies in the Lesser-Known Varieties of English] proves
wrong the commonly held assumption that linguistic heterogeneity is
a property of large urban populations and provides an excellent
starting point for sociolinguistic, contact linguistic and
linguistic anthropological research projects that will unearth more
detailed insights into the dynamics of language use outside of the
urban western context.' Bettina Megge, Journal of
Sociolinguistics
'… an extremely important survey and documentation of understudied
global Englishes. The volume achieves its goal of being an
appropriate overview of many of these seemingly incongruous
systems, being both accessible and consistent for a scholarly
audience that seeks to understand how global Englishes develop in
various postcolonial, post-imperial and national contexts.' John K.
McCullough, The LINGUIST List
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