Page 1 OXFORD APPLIED LINGUISTICS Understanding English as a Lingua Franca
Barbara Seidlhofer OXFORD Page 2 Published in this series BACHMAN: Fundamental …

The third edition of World Englishes provides an engaging overview of the global variations
in vocabulary, grammar, phonology and pragmatics of English as it is used worldwide. This …

From Scotland to Singapore, Canada to the Channel Islands, Namibia to New Zealand and
beyond, International English takes you on a fascinating journey through the varieties of …

The privileged position of English throughout the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN) has given rise to two interrelated issues. The first issue concerns the implications …

World Englishes have evolved in different historical and geographical settings, but despite
this diversity they have been found to show surprising similarities in their evolutionary …

The History of English: An Introduction provides a chronological analysis of the linguistic,
social, and cultural development of the English language from before its establishment in …

Language and Identity in Englishes examines the core issues and debates surrounding the
relationship between English, language and identity. Drawing on a range of international …

This paper reports findings from a study of the frequency and distribution of a set of modals
and quasi‐modals in nine matching corpora representing British, American, Australian, New …

The systematic description of varieties of English, native and non-native, is steadily gaining
momentum in contemporary sociolinguistics (cf, eg, Kortmann and Schneider 2004, cf. also …

This chapter provides a survey of issues central to the study of English as an international
language in the Asian context, with particular reference to world Englishes, and English in …