Raymond Hickey is Adjunct Professor at the University of Limerick, Ireland, and former Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. His recent publications include Listening to the Past (2017), The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics (2017), English in Multilingual South Africa (2020), The Handbook of Language Contact (2020), Sounds of English Worldwide (2023) and The Oxford Handbook of Irish English (2024).

• General Editor's introduction Raymond Hickey; Introduction to Volume VI Raymond Hickey; Part I. Asia: I.I South Asia: 1. English in India Claudia Lange and Robert Fuchs; 2. English in Pakistan Muhammad Shakir and Dagmar Deuber; 3. Sri Lankan English Tobias Bernaisch; I.II East Asia: 4. English in mainland China Kingsley Bolton and Wei Zhang; 5. Hong Kong English: from colonial to postcolonial English Kingsley Bolton; 6. English in Korea Sofia Rüdiger; 7. English in Japan Toshiko Yamaguchi; I.III South–East Asia: 8. English in Singapore Jakob Leimgruber; 9. English in Brunei and Malaysia David Deterding and Nur Raihan Mohamad; 10. English within and beyond the Philippines Isabel Pefianco Martín and Julius C. Martinez; Part II. Australasia: II.I Australia: 11. Australian English Kate Burridge and Pam Peters; 12. Australian creoles Sally Dixon; 13. Australian Aboriginal English Celeste Rodriguez Louro, Glenys Collard and Madeleine Clews; II.II New Zealand: 14. New Zealand English Lynn Clark, Andreea S. Calude and Jennifer Hay; 15. Māori and Pasifika Englishes in New Zealand Anita Szakay and Andy Gibson; Part III. The Pacific: 16. Pidgin and English in Hawai'i James Grama, Michelle Kamigaki–Baron and Katie Drager; 17. English in Micronesia David Britain and Kazuko Matsumoto; 18. Melanesian pidgin, Tok Pisin and English in Papua New Guinea Craig Volker; 19. English in the South Pacific Carolin Biewer.

Raymond Hickey is Adjunct Professor at the University of Limerick, Ireland, and former Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. His recent publications include Listening to the Past (2017), The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics (2017), English in Multilingual South Africa (2020), The Handbook of Language Contact (2020), Sounds of English Worldwide (2023) and The Oxford Handbook of Irish English (2024).

• General Editor's introduction Raymond Hickey; Introduction to Volume VI Raymond Hickey; Part I. Asia: I.I South Asia: 1. English in India Claudia Lange and Robert Fuchs; 2. English in Pakistan Muhammad Shakir and Dagmar Deuber; 3. Sri Lankan English Tobias Bernaisch; I.II East Asia: 4. English in mainland China Kingsley Bolton and Wei Zhang; 5. Hong Kong English: from colonial to postcolonial English Kingsley Bolton; 6. English in Korea Sofia Rüdiger; 7. English in Japan Toshiko Yamaguchi; I.III South–East Asia: 8. English in Singapore Jakob Leimgruber; 9. English in Brunei and Malaysia David Deterding and Nur Raihan Mohamad; 10. English within and beyond the Philippines Isabel Pefianco Martín and Julius C. Martinez; Part II. Australasia: II.I Australia: 11. Australian English Kate Burridge and Pam Peters; 12. Australian creoles Sally Dixon; 13. Australian Aboriginal English Celeste Rodriguez Louro, Glenys Collard and Madeleine Clews; II.II New Zealand: 14. New Zealand English Lynn Clark, Andreea S. Calude and Jennifer Hay; 15. Māori and Pasifika Englishes in New Zealand Anita Szakay and Andy Gibson; Part III. The Pacific: 16. Pidgin and English in Hawai'i James Grama, Michelle Kamigaki–Baron and Katie Drager; 17. English in Micronesia David Britain and Kazuko Matsumoto; 18. Melanesian pidgin, Tok Pisin and English in Papua New Guinea Craig Volker; 19. English in the South Pacific Carolin Biewer.

Raymond Hickey is Adjunct Professor at the University of Limerick, Ireland, and former Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. His recent publications include Listening to the Past (2017), The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics (2017), English in Multilingual South Africa (2020), The Handbook of Language Contact (2020), Sounds of English Worldwide (2023) and The Oxford Handbook of Irish English (2024).

• General Editor's introduction Raymond Hickey; Introduction to Volume VI Raymond Hickey; Part I. Asia: I.I South Asia: 1. English in India Claudia Lange and Robert Fuchs; 2. English in Pakistan Muhammad Shakir and Dagmar Deuber; 3. Sri Lankan English Tobias Bernaisch; I.II East Asia: 4. English in mainland China Kingsley Bolton and Wei Zhang; 5. Hong Kong English: from colonial to postcolonial English Kingsley Bolton; 6. English in Korea Sofia Rüdiger; 7. English in Japan Toshiko Yamaguchi; I.III South–East Asia: 8. English in Singapore Jakob Leimgruber; 9. English in Brunei and Malaysia David Deterding and Nur Raihan Mohamad; 10. English within and beyond the Philippines Isabel Pefianco Martín and Julius C. Martinez; Part II. Australasia: II.I Australia: 11. Australian English Kate Burridge and Pam Peters; 12. Australian creoles Sally Dixon; 13. Australian Aboriginal English Celeste Rodriguez Louro, Glenys Collard and Madeleine Clews; II.II New Zealand: 14. New Zealand English Lynn Clark, Andreea S. Calude and Jennifer Hay; 15. Māori and Pasifika Englishes in New Zealand Anita Szakay and Andy Gibson; Part III. The Pacific: 16. Pidgin and English in Hawai'i James Grama, Michelle Kamigaki–Baron and Katie Drager; 17. English in Micronesia David Britain and Kazuko Matsumoto; 18. Melanesian pidgin, Tok Pisin and English in Papua New Guinea Craig Volker; 19. English in the South Pacific Carolin Biewer.