Interactions across Englishes

Christiane Meierkord is Chair Professor of English Linguistics in the English Department at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.

• 1. Introduction; 2. From English as a lingua franca to interactions across Englishes; 3. Interactions across Englishes and contact phenomena; 4. The interactions-across-Englishes model; 5. Intranational interactions across Englishes in the outer circle; 6. Local choices in South Africa; 7. International interactions across Englishes - trends and developments; 8. Linguistic choices in global IaEs; 9. Conclusion and outlook.

'… a very welcome addition to our reference selves; it nicely complements the comprehensive descriptive four volume series Varieties of English (by Mouton de Gruyter, 2008) or the more theoretical Postcolonial Englishes (Schneider, 2007, also by Cambridge University Press); and it shows again the great progress that has been made in this sub-discipline over the past 30 years.' Archiv