Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-
stop resources for students. Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an …

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 …

Although social networking apps and dictation-based automatic speech recognition (ASR)
are now widely available in mobile phones, relatively little is known about whether and how …

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 has become 'the world's default mode'(McArthur, 2002: 13) for communication. As a
de facto lingua franca, English and its associated cultures are increasingly pluralistic …

The development of Hong Kong English (henceforth HKE) has triggered a number of
concerns amongst the local population with respect to its status (Joseph, 1996; Luk, 1998; …

In this paper we shall first try to define the term 'China English'(with our own definition of this
term deliberated in the 'Discussion'section) as a performance variety in the larger …

This article explores the question of whether the norms based on native speakers of English
should be kept in English teaching in an era when English has become World Englishes …

This study investigated the attitudes of Chinese university students and teachers towards
China English (CE), an emerging variety in China and the ideological underpinnings …

Academic writing for research publication takes place around the globe, involving, according
to a recent account, 5.5 million scholars, 2,000 publishers and 17,500 research/higher …