This book offers a comprehensive linguistic analysis of contemporary US television series.
Adopting an interdisciplinary and multimethodological approach, Monika Bednarek brings …

The global spread of English has had widespread linguistic, social, and cultural implications,
affecting the lives of millions of people around the world. This textbook provides a lively and …

The legacy of British (and American) imperialism and the surge in globalisation over the last
century have seen the spread of English around the world. From the mid-1970s World …

The ongoing expansion and diversification of English, especially in the Expanding Circle,
calls for a comparative analysis of these processes and a deepened theoretical …

English as a global lingua franca interacts with other languages across a wide range of
multilingual contexts. Combining insights from linguistics, education studies, and …

Abstract The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has witnessed an unprecedented economic and
cultural development since its foundation in 1971. Foreign labor and investment play a …

Colonization, the European expansion, and, more specifically, British imperialism building a
global empire was the decisive triggering factor which has caused World Englishes (WE) to …

This article sets out to review English for specific purposes (ESP) as a discipline and its
conceptual and scholarly connections with the world Englishes (WE) approach English …

In this paper, we explore verb complementation patterns with to and ing in native English
(British and American English) as compared to three Asian Englishes (Hong Kong, Indian …

This article begins by introducing the International Corpus of English project and proceeds
to summarize the findings and outcomes of an extensive review by written questionnaire …