Janina Brutt-Griffler, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Alabama. Her research areas include world English, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition and second language writing. Her work has appeared in major English studies journals.

• Glossary Preface 1 Images of World English: Writing English as an International Language 2 The Representation of the Social in a Social Science: Methodology in Linguistics 3 Ideological and Economic Crosscurrents of Empire4 The Contested Terrain of Colonial Language Policy 5 Access Denied: Containing the Spread of English 6 The Becoming of a World Language 7 Macroacquisition: Bilingual Speech Communities and Language Change 8 The Macroacquisition of English: New Representations in the Language 9 (The) World (of) English: Englishes in Convergence 10 Decentering English Applied Linguistics AppendicesReferences Index