Exploring the Ecology of World Englishes in the Twenty-first Century

Pam Peters is Emeritus Professor at Macquarie University and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA). Kate Burridge is Professor of Linguistics at Monash University

A fascinating, expert-studded collection taking its readers on an insightful trip along the shores of the Indian Ocean and the Western and South Pacific, offering a rare holistic view of the relevant Englishes by discussing language use and language structure against the specific closely intertwined ecological, cultural and societal contexts

• Chapter 1: Exploring the ecology of World Englishes in the twenty-first century: Language, society and culturePam Peters and Kate BurridgeChapter 2: Platform Paper: Reflections of cultures in corpus texts: Focus on the Indo-Pacific regionEdgar W. SchneiderChapter 3 :Reflections of Afrikaans in the English short stories of Herman Charles BosmanBertus van RooyChapter 4: Susmaryosep! Lexical evidence of cultural influence in Philippine EnglishLoy LisingChapter 5: Cultural keywords in Indian EnglishPam PetersChapter 6: Lexicopragmatics between cultural heritage and exonormative second language acquisition: Address terms, greetings and discourse markers in Ugandan EnglishChristiane Meierkord and Bebwa IsingomaChapter 7: Cultural relations? Kinship terminology in three islands in the Northern PacificSara Lynch, Eva Kuske and Dominique B. HessChapter 8: Somewhere between Australia and Malaysia and ‘I’ and ‘we’: Verbalising Culture on the Cocos (Keeling) IslandsHannah HedegardChapter 9: Expressing Concepts Metaphorically in English Editorials in the Sinosphere Kathleen Ahrens and Winnie Huiheng ZengChapter 10: L1 Singapore English: The influence of ethnicity and input Sarah BuschfeldChapter 11: Across three Kachruvian Circles with two parts-of-speech: Nouns and verbs in ENL, ESL and EFL varieties Tobias Bernaisch and Sandra GötzChapter 12: Modality, rhetoric and regionality in English editorials in the SinospherePam Peters, Tobias Bernaisch and Kathleen AhrensChapter 13: Where grammar meets culture: Pronominal systems in Australasia and the South Pacific revisitedKate Burridge and Carolin BiewerChapter 14: Decolonisation and neo-colonialism in Aboriginal educationIan G. MalcolmChapter 15: Modal and semi-modal verbs of obligation in the Australian, New Zealand and British Hansard: 1901-2015Adam Smith, Minna Korhonen, Haidee Kotze and Bertus van RooyChapter 16: Privileging informality: Cultural influences on the structural patterning of Australian EnglishIsabelle Burke and Kate BurridgeChapter 17: The Auckland Voices Project: Language change in a changing cityMiriam Meyerhoff, Elaine Ballard, Helen Charters, Alexandra Birchfield and Catherine I. Watson