Alexander Onysko is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria.

• List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Acknowledgments 1. Where are WEs Heading to? An Introduction to the Inaugural Volume of Bloomsbury Advances in World Englishes, Alexander Onysko (University of Klagenfurt, Austria) 2. Decolonizing (World) Englishes, Mario Saraceni (University of Portsmouth, UK) and Camille Jacob (University of Portsmouth, UK)3. “The Communicative Event” in International English(es) as Social Practice: Adducing a Tricodal/Trimodal Theory of the Linguistic Structuring of Social Meaning, Allan James (University of Klagenfurt, Austria)4. Extending the Scope of World Englishes: Interactions across Englishes in Post-Protectorates and at the Grassroots, Christiane Meierkord (University of Bochum, Germany)5. Contact, Asia, and the Rethinking of Englishes in Multilingual Ecologies, Lisa Lim (Curtin University, Australia) and Umberto Ansaldo (Curtin University, Australia)6. Multilingualism and the Role of English in the United Arab Emirates, with views from Singapore and Hong Kong, Peter Siemund (University of Hamburg, Germany), Ahmad Al-Issa (University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates), Sharareh Rahbari (University of Hamburg, Germany) and Jakob R. E. Leimgruber (University of Basel, Switzerland)7. The History of English Language Attitudes within the Multilingual Ecology of South Africa, Susan Coetzee-Van Rooy (North West University, South Africa) and Bertus Van Rooy (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) 8. Transnational Dialect Contact and Language Variation and Change in World Englishes, Rebecca Lurie Starr (National University of Singapore, Singapore)9. “I Don’t Get It”: Researching the Cultural Lexicon of Global Englishes, David Crystal (University of Bangor, UK)10. Colonial Cultural Conceptualizations and World Englishes, Frank Polzenhagen (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany), Anna Finzel (University of Potsdam, Germany) and Hans-Georg Wolf (University of Potsdam, Germany)11. Individual Lives in Collectivist Faces: On Social Norms in a Radio Show, Eric A. Anchimbe (University of Bayreuth, Germany)12. Teaching (About) World Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca, Andy Kirkpatrick (Griffith University, Australia)13. Documenting World Englishes in the Oxford English Dictionary: Past Perspectives, Present Developments, and Future Directions, Danica Salazar (Oxford University Press)Index

This timely edited volume provides a much-needed critical reflection on the existing research paradigm and presents future directions in the study of world Englishes. A must-read for scholars who are committed to capturing the complexity of English(es) today at both individual and societal levels.