Daniel Schreier is Professor of English Linguistics at the Universität Zürich. He is author of several books on English in the South Atlantic, has published some sixty articles and has served as co-editor of English World-Wide (2013–19). Marianne Hundt is Professor of English Linguistics at Universität Zürich. She is the co-ordinator of the International Corpus of English (since 2017), wrote New Zealand English Grammar (1998) and is co-editor of English World-Wide (since 2013). Edgar W. Schneider is Chair Professor of English Linguistics at the Universität Regensburg, Germany. His many books include Postcolonial English (Cambridge, 2007) and English Around the World (Cambridge, 2010).

'This is a must-read volume! Three of the most eminent researchers on World Englishes achieve the difficult feat of capturing the essential findings of research in this vast field whilst also highlighting its contribution to linguistic theories and methodologies, and introducing some genuinely innovative perspectives.' Jenny Cheshire, Queen Mary University of London

• 1. World Englishes: an introduction Daniel Schreier, Marianne Hundt and Edgar W. Schneider; Part I. The Making of Englishes: 2. The colonial and post-colonial expansion of English Raymond Hickey; 3. Theoretical models of English as a world language Sarah Buschfeld and Alexander Kautzsch; 4. The contribution of language contact to the emergence of World Englishes Lisa Lim; 5. Population structure and the emergence of World Englishes Salikoko S. Mufwene; 6. World Englishes, migration, and diaspora Lena Zipp; Part II. World Englishes Old and New: 7. A sociolinguistic ecology of colonial Britain David Britain; 8. English in North America Merja Kytö; 9. English in the Caribbean and the Central American rim Michael Aceto; 10. English in Africa Bertus van Rooy; 11. English in South Asia Claudia Lange; 12. English in South-East Asia Lionel Wee; 13. World Englishes old and new: English in Australasia and the South Pacific Carolin Biewer and Kate Burridge; Part III. Linguistics and World Englishes: 14. The global growth of English at the grassroots Christiane Meierkord; 15. Beyond English as a second or foreign language: local uses and the cultural politics of identification Alison Edwards and Philip Seargeant; 16. World Englishes in cyberspace Christian Mair; 17. World Englishes and their dialect roots Daniel Schreier; 18. Lexicography and World Englishes James Lambert; 19. The relevance of World Englishes for variationist sociolinguistics Alexandra D'Arcy; 20. Multilingualism and the World Englishes Sue Fox; 21. Unearthing the diachrony of World Englishes Magnus Huber; 22. Corpus-based approaches to World Englishes Marianne Hundt; 23. World Englishes from the perspective of dialect typology Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Melanie Röthlisberger; 24. Language Acquisition and World Englishes Sarah Buschfeld; Part IV. Current Challenges: 25. Norms and standards in World Englishes Pam Peters; 26. Identity and indexicality in the study of World Englishes Erik Schleef; 27. The politics of World Englishes Mario Saraceni; 28. World Englishes in the media Andrew Moody; 29. World Englishes and transnationalism Brook Bolander.