Contending with Globalization in World Englishes

Mukul Saxena is Assistant Professor in the Centre for Applied Linguistics, Warwick University, UK. Before this, he worked in Brunei Darussalam, Lancaster and York. His publications and research interests are in the areas of (English-)bilingual classroom interaction, Multilingual literacies, Language maintenance & shift, World Englishes.Tope Omoniyi is Professor of Sociolinguistics in the School of Arts at Roehampton University, London (UK). His research interests straddle issues in language and identity, language in education, and language policy and planning in Europe and Africa. His scholarly articles and reviews have appeared in numerous journals. He is the author of The Sociolinguistics of Borderlands: Two Nations, One People (AWP 2004) and editor and co-editor of several volumes of essays.

• Chapter 1: Introduction - Tope Omoniyi and Mukul SaxenaChapter 2: Globalization and International Intelligibility - Paroo NihalaniChapter 3: From Chaos to Order: Language Change, Lingua Francas & World Englishes - Phyllis Ghim-Lian ChewChapter 4: English as a Lingua Franca in the Global Context: Interconnectedness, Variation and Change - Martin Dewey & Jennifer JenkinsChapter 5: World Englishes, Globalization, and the Politics of Conformity - Rakesh M. BhattChapter 6: EFL: from You Sound Like Dickens to International English - Maria GeorgievaChapter 7: Glocalization of English in World Englishes: An Emerging Variety among Persian Speakers of English - Farzad SharifianChapter 8: Local Networks in the Formation and Development of West African English - Augustin Simo BobdaChapter 9: The English Language, Globalization and Latin America: Possible Lessons from the 'Outer Circle' - Kanavillil RajagopalanChapter 10: Rethinking Origins and Localization in Global Englishes - Alastair PennycookChapter 11: Final Reflections: Globalization and World Englishes - Mukul Saxena and Tope Omoniyi

What roles are English and World Englishes playing in globalization? What effect is globalization having on English and World Englishes? What effect is globalization having on other languages? Anyone interested in exploring these crucial questions will find this book a most helpful and stimulating companion. The editors have assembled an appropriately diverse all-star cast of contributors, each of whom approaches the topic from a refreshingly innovative standpoint. To paraphrase Omoniyi’s poem which opens the book, readers will learn to 'waltz, salsa and lion-dance' (and hip-hop) their way through the complex cultural and linguistic steps of globalisation.