The new Cambridge history of the English language Volume VI, part 2 Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific edited by Raymond Hickey

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hickey, Raymond, 1954- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language.

Africa.

Pacific Area.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific

Place of Publication:

Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2026

Summary:

"This volume offers in-depth coverage of varieties of English across the world, outside of the British and North American arenas. It is split into two parts, with Part 1 dedicated to varieties of English across Africa, and Part 2 looking at varieties in Asia, and Australia and the Pacific. There are introductory chapters dealing with the colonial transportation of English overseas, and the generic types of English which resulted, often labelled World Englishes, and examinations of English-lexifier pidgins and creoles. The remaining sections look at different geographic regions. Anglophone Africa divides into three blocks: west, east and south, each with different linguistic ecologies determined by history and demography. Asia, especially South Asia and South-East Asia, is similar in the kinds of English it now shows, with the significance of East Asia for varieties of English increasing in recent years. Varieties of English in Australia and the Pacific are also examined"-- Cambridge Core

Contents:

English in India / Claudia Lange and Robert Fuchs

English in Pakistan / Muhammad Shakir and Dagmar Deuber

Sri Lankan English / Tobias Bernaisch

English in mainland China / Kingsley Bolton and Wei Zhang

Hong Kong English / Kingsley Bolton

English in Korea / Sofia Rüdiger

English in Japan / Toshiko Yamaguchi

English in Singapore / Jakob R. E. Leimgruber

English in Brunei and Malaysia / David Deterding and Nur Raihan Mohamad

Englishes within and beyond the Philippines / Isabel Pefianco Martín and Julius C. Martinez

English in Australia / Kate Burridge and Pam Peters

Australian creoles / Sally Dixon

Australian Aboriginal English / Celeste Rodríguez Louro, Glenys Collard, and Madeleine Clews

English in New Zealand / Lynn Clark, Andreea S. Calude, and Jennifer Hay

Maori and Pasifika Englishes in New Zealand / Anita Szakay and Andy Gibson

Pidgin and English in Hawai?i / James Grama, Michelle Kamigaki-Baron, and Katie Drager

English in Micronesia / David Britain and Kazuko Matsumoto

Melanesian pidgin, Tok Pisin, and English in Papua New Guinea / Craig Alan Volker

English in the South Pacific / Carolin Biewer

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed April 20, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version New Cambridge history of the English language

ISBN:

9781009748148

1009748149

OCLC:

1518886734

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license