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The new Cambridge history of the English language. Volume Vi, part I, Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific / edited by Raymond Hickey.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--History.
- English language.
- Africa.
- Asia.
- Australasia.
- Pacific Area.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps
- 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 one dedicated to varieties of English across Africa, and Part two 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:
- Transported English in the colonial period / Raymond Hickey
- Modelling the formation and developmental trajectories of varieties of English / Edgar W. Schneider
- Towards a history of world Englishes / Rajend Mesthrie
- English as a second and foreign language / Andy Kirkpatrick
- Pidgins and creoles in the history of English / John McWhorter
- English and Krio in Sierra Leone / Kofi Yakpo, Saidu Bangura, and Malcolm Awadajin Finney
- English in Liberia / John Victor Singler
- English in Ghana / Thorsten Brato
- English in Nigeria / Ulrike Gut and Foluke Unuabonah
- English in Cameroon / Hans-Georg Wolf and Erica A. Anchimbe
- English in Kenya and Tanzania / Josef Schmied
- English in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan / Christiane Meierkord, Bebwa Isingoma, and Annemarie Kagwesage
- The Anglophone settlement of South Africa / Ian Bekker and Kara Schultz
- English of the Black population of South Africa / Rajend Mesthrie and Bertus van Rooy
- English of Afrikaans speakers / Bertus van Rooy and Ronel Wasserman
- English of the Indian population of South Africa / Rajend Mesthrie
- English in Namibia / Sarah Buschfeld
- English in Zimbabwe / Susan Fitzmaurice
- South Atlantic English / Daniel Schreier
- The English of the Falkland Islands / David Britain, Hannah Hedegard, and Andreas Sudbury.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed April 23, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version: New Cambridge history of the English language
- ISBN:
- 9781009206235
- 1009206230
- OCLC:
- 1570339594
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000329144
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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