Immigrant Englishes Around the World is a collection that explores the varieties of English that emerge when speakers whose native languages are not English immigrate to an English-speaking country.

Autorentext

Erik R. Thomas is a professor in the English Department at North Carolina State University, USA. He is the author of Sociophonetics: An Introduction and the editor of Mexican American English: Substrate Influence and the Birth of an Ethnolect.

Klappentext

Immigrant Englishes Around the World is a collection that explores the varieties of English that emerge when speakers whose native languages are not English immigrate to an English-speaking country.

Inhalt

1. Immigrant Englishes around the world - Erik R. Thomas; 2. Testing and amplifying the Immigrant English model: a view from South African Indian English - Rajend Mesthrie; 3. Dynamic characteristics of PRICE and MOUTH in Multicultural Australian English - Felicity Cox and Joshua Penney; 4. Multicultural London English - Christian Ilbury; 5. Asian Englishes in England: exploring the Evaluation stage - Jessica Wormald; 6. New speakers, new identities, new accents: ethnicity and accent in Glasgow - Ebtehal Al-Asiri, Nate Haj Bakir, Divyanshi Shaktawat, Farhana Shaukat-Alam , and Jane Stuart-Smith; 7. Midwestern U.S. immigrant Englishes: an emergent Dearborn English contrasted with established regional immigrant Englishes - Iman Sheydaei and Thomas Purnell; 8. Spanish-contact English in New York City - Michael Newman, Víctor Fernández-Mallat, and Rafael Orozco; 9. English in Miami - Phillip M. Carter; 10. "That Spanish Twang:" demographic shift and language contact outcomes in the Great Plains - Mary E. Kohn and Trevin Garcia; 11. Korean American English - Andrew Cheng and Lisa Jeon; 12. Immigrant English(es) in Toronto - Michol F. Hoffman and James A. Walker; Index