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Hoffmann, Thomas and Lucia Siebers, eds. 2009. World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects. Selected papers from the 13th IAWE conference. (Varieties of English Around the World G40). John Benjamins. xix+436 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
Language as a subject

Annotation

Emphasizing the common ground of all research on World Englishes, the 22 articles in this collected volume, selected from more than a hundred papers presented at the 2007 conference of the International Association for World Englishes in Regensburg, cover a broad range of topics which together reflect the state of the art of research in this field. The volume focuses on regions as diverse as Africa, the Caribbean, the Antipodes and Asia, but also promotes a globally comparative perspective by analyzing selected characteristics of the English language across a wide range of varieties. Methodologically, a number of different approaches are applied, including corpus linguistic studies, socio-phonetics as well as historical discourse analysis.

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