World Englishes

Gunnel Melchers is Professor Emerita in the English Department at Stockholm University. Her research has been devoted to regional and social variation, with special reference to the north of England and Scotland’s Northern Isles. Philip Shaw is Professor Emeritus in the English Department at Stockholm University. He has published within a wide range of areas of applied linguistics, particularly with a focus on academic and business English, and vocabulary learning among advanced students, and in World Englishes. Peter Sundkvist is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Stockholm University. His research interests concern phonology, phonetics, and dialectology, relating to varieties of English and Germanic languages more generally. Most of his empirical work has focused on the Shetland Islands and such topics as Shetland Scots and Scottish Standard English.

'I thoroughly recommend the third edition of this excellent introductory textbook on World Englishes. The new edition comes with an expanded set of speaker interviews, adding, for example, speakers from Cork in Ireland to Uganda. This allows readers and listeners to make comparisons between the different varieties of English illustrated here. It is written in an extremely accessible style and will be of great value to undergraduate students of the subject.'Andy Kirkpatrick, Griffith University, Australia

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsIPA chart 1 The roots of English2 The spread of English3 Variation in English4 The Inner circle 5 The Outer circle6 The Expanding circle7 Beyond the circlesWells’ Standard lexical setsGlossary of linguistic termsReferencesIndex