Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Series editor’s preface ix
4. Acknowledgements xiii
5. Introduction xv
6. 1. Focus on
7. 1.1 Africa
8. Deracialising the GOOSE vowel in South African English 3
9. Codifying Ghanaian English 19
10. 1.2 The Caribbean
11. Corpus linguistics meets sociolinguistics 39
12. Rhoticity in educated Jamaican English 61
13. Standard English in the secondary school in Trinidad 83
14. 1.3 Australia and New Zealand
15. Australian English as a regional epicenter 107
16. Finding one’s own vowel space 125
17. 1.4 Asia
18. Language in Hong Kong 143
19. The roles of English in Southeast Asian legal systems 155
20. Not just an “Outer Circle”, “Asian” English 179
21. “Where’s the party yaar !” 207
22. Innovation in second language phonology 227
23. Intelligibility assessment of Japanese accents 239
24. 2. The global perspective
25. 2.1 Comparative studies
26. World Englishes between simplification and complexification 265
27. Global feature — local norms? 287
28. The shared core of the perfect across Englishes 309
29. Word-formation in New Englishes 331
30. 2.2 New approaches
31. The indigenization of English in North America 353
32. Perspectives on English as a lingua franca 369
33. A discourse-historical approach to the English native speaker 385
34. World Englishes and Peace Sociolinguistics 407
35. New voices in the canon 415
36. Index 433