Immigrant Englishes Around the World
1st Edition
Published on 29. August 2025
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-1-032-51104-7 (ISBN)
Description
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. The book examines the commonalities and diversity of immigrant varieties of English that may be seen from a comparison of groups with different heritage languages in different English-speaking nations around the world.
Written by established researchers who all have conducted work with communities of immigrants or their descendants, the chapters explore immigrant Englishes across Great Britain, Australia, South Africa, and North America. Covering the theoretical grounding that unifies immigrant Englishes across the globe and using a model that is designed specifically for immigrant groups, the book focusses on how the communities as a whole develop their own distinctive ways of speaking English.
This comprehensive comparison of immigrant dialects across the English-speaking world is essential reading for advanced students and researchers of sociolinguistics, language and migration, and language variation.
Written by established researchers who all have conducted work with communities of immigrants or their descendants, the chapters explore immigrant Englishes across Great Britain, Australia, South Africa, and North America. Covering the theoretical grounding that unifies immigrant Englishes across the globe and using a model that is designed specifically for immigrant groups, the book focusses on how the communities as a whole develop their own distinctive ways of speaking English.
This comprehensive comparison of immigrant dialects across the English-speaking world is essential reading for advanced students and researchers of sociolinguistics, language and migration, and language variation.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced
Illustrations
48 s/w Abbildungen, 2 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 46 s/w Zeichnungen, 21 s/w Tabellen
21 Tables, black and white; 46 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 48 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
637 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-51104-7 (9781032511047)
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Immigrant Englishes Around the World
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1st Edition
Routledge
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Available for download
Person
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.
Content
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, Victor Fernandez-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