Global Englishes [Hardcover]

Global Englishes offers a clear and comprehensive overview of key areas of the topic, encompassing both World Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca within a single volume.

The global spread of English, with over two billion users of the language, is now well-documented. English functions as a language of education, business, tourism, and intercultural communication in many settings across the world. Global Englishes offers a clear and comprehensive overview of key areas of the topic, encompassing both World Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) within a single volume.

This engaging textbook offers readers the opportunity to reflect on key debates as well as develop their own thinking on real-world language practices and problems in light of Global Englishes theory and research. Organised into a three-part Survey, followed by readings from important texts, this is both an introductory textbook covering key concepts and themes, and a starting point for further study. It is essential reading for students of Global/World Englishes and ELF in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, English language teaching, and intercultural communication.

Contents

Section 1: Survey

Part I. Contexts

1. Introduction to Global Englishes

2. English and globalisation

3. English and multilingualism

Part II. Concepts

4. World Englishes

5. English as a Lingua Franca

6. Global Englishes: Attitudes and ideologies

Part III. Debates

7. Global Englishes in intercultural and transcultural communication

8. Global Englishes in education

9. The future of Global Englishes

Section 2: Further Reading

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