Routledge Handbook of English Language Studies

Philip Seargeant is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the Open University, UK.Ann Hewings is Director of Applied Linguistics and English Language at the Open University, UK. Stephen Pihlaja is Reader in Stylistics at Newman University, Birmingham, UK.

• An introduction to English Language StudiesPART 1: Defining English The idea of EnglishThe historical study of EnglishEnglish and colonialism World Englishes: disciplinary debates and future directionsEnglish and multilingualism: a contested history Standards in EnglishContact EnglishesThe phonology of EnglishThe grammars of English PART 2: The Relevance of English The relevance of English language studies in higher educationLiteracy in English: Literacies in EnglishesTeaching English as an additional language in Anglophone and Brazilian contexts: different curriculum approachesTeaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)English and social identityLanguage, gender and sexualityThe politics of EnglishPersuasive languageLiterature and the English languageThe language of creative writingMedia, power, and representationThe language of social mediaPART 3: Analysing English Stylistics: studying literary and everyday style in EnglishSociolinguistics: studying English and its social relations Corpus linguistics: studying language as part of the digital humanitiesDiscourse analysis: studying and critiquing language in useLinguistic ethnography: studying English language, cultures and practices The psycholinguistics of English Metaphor Studies and EnglishMultimodal EnglishEnglish and translation

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