List of Contributors

Michael Aceto is Professor of Linguistics at East Carolina University, NC, USA. His research has mostly presented primary data gathered in the field in Panama, Barbuda, St. Eustatius, and Dominica. His articles have appeared in Language in Society, English World-Wide, American Speech, and Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. His book project Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean (2003) was published by John Benjamins. He aspires to bring the discipline of linguistics in contact with the millennia of works and thought by Buddhist scholars. He is also exploring the relationship between vernacular and standard Englishes in his manuscript Everyday Language Every Day.

John Algeo is Professor Emeritus of English Language at the University of Georgia, USA, where he served as Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor and Department head. He is past President of the American Dialect Society, the American Name Society, and the Dictionary Society of North America, as well as past Director of the Commission on the English Language of the National Council of Teachers of English. He has been a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar and a Guggenheim Fellow at the University of London. He was editor of American Speech, the journal of the American Dialect Society, for ten years and serves on the editorial boards of various academic journals. He is editor of volume 6 of the Cambridge History of the English Language (2001) on the history of English in North America. The seventh edition of his textbook on The Origins and Development of the English Language was published in 2005.

Ay? Bamgbo?e is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics and African Languages, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is co-editor (with Ay? Banjo and Andrew Thomas) of New Englishes: A West African Perspective (1995). He has also contributed several articles to World Englishes of which he has been consulting editor since 1993. A long-standing member of the International Association of World Englishes (IAWE), he was president of the Association in (2000-2002). He was George A. Miller visiting professor to the Division of English as an International Language and the Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1993-1995).

Margie Berns is Professor of English at Purdue University, IN, USA. She has published on such World Englishes-related topics as the sociolinguistics of the expanding circle, communicative competence, communicative language teaching, lingua franca, and intelligibility. Publications include In the Presence of English: Media and European Youth (2007), co-authored with Kees de Bot and Uwe Hasebrink, and The Concise Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (2009), which she edited. She has served as co-editor with Daniel Davis of the journal World Englishes (2006-2008), and as President of the International Association for World Englishes (2004-2006) and of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (2002-2003).

Tej K. Bhatia is Professor of Linguistics and Director of South Asian Languages at Syracuse University, NY, USA. He has been Director of the Linguistic Studies Program and Acting Director of the Cognitive Science Program at the university. Currently, he is also a Faculty Fellow of the Forensic Sciences and National Security Institute. He has published sixteen books and a number of articles and book chapters in the areas of bilingualism and multiculturalism, social and psychological information extraction, social media and advertising discourse, sociolinguistics, and the structure of English and South Asian languages (particularly, Hindi-Urdu and Punjabi). His notable publications include Handbook of Bilingualism and Multilingualism (2013) and Advertising and Marketing in Rural India (2007), among others.

Vijay K. Bhatia is an Adjunct Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Visiting Professor in the Hellenic American University in Athens. He was the Founding President of the LSP and Professional Communication Association for the Asia-Pacific Rim. His research interests include Critical Genre Analysis, ESP and Professional Communication in academic and professional practices. Three of his books, Analysing Genre: Language Use in Professional Settings (1993), Worlds of Written Discourse: A Genre-based View (2004), and Critical Genre Analysis: Investigating Interdiscursive Performance in Professional Communication (2017) are widely used in studies of genre.

Eyamba G. Bokamba is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and African Languages in the Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, who has been a leading scholar, researcher, and teacher in African linguistics at the University of Illinois for over forty years. He received his doctorate in linguistics, with specialization in the syntax of Bantu languages from Indiana University in 1976. His publications have appeared as chapters in edited books, journals, and conference proceedings. He is a co-editor, with Ryan K. Shosted and Bezza T. Ayalew, of Selected Proceedings of the 40thAnnual Conference on African Linguistics: African Languages and Linguistics Today (2011).

Kingsley Bolton is Professor of English Linguistics at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Professor Emeritus at Stockholm University. He has published widely on English in the Asian region, language and globalization, sociolinguistics, and world Englishes, including Chinese Englishes: A Sociolinguistic History (2003). He is a co-editor with Daniel R. Davis of the journal World Englishes.

Werner Botha is Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His academic interests include the use of English in Asian higher education, educational linguistics, multilingualism, and language variation, with particular reference to the Asian region. Recent publications include research articles on the spread and use of English in China's higher education, sociolinguistic variation in Cantonese and language variation in Singapore.

James Dean Brown is currently Professor of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA. He has spoken and taught in many places ranging from Australia to Venezuela. He has published numerous articles and books on language testing, curriculum design, research methods, and connected speech. His most recent books are Mixed Methods Research for TESOL (2014); Cambridge Guide to Research in Language Teaching and Learning (2015); Teaching and Assessing EIL in Local Contexts around the World (2015); and Introducing Needs Analysis and English for Specific Purposes (2016).

Daniel R. Davis is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, MI, USA. He has published on a range of topics including world Englishes, Celtic linguistics, dialectology, American English, descriptive grammar, and the linguistics of trademark law and mathematical notation. He is co-editor (with Kingsley Bolton) of the journal World Englishes, and was Executive Director of the International Association for World Englishes (2011-2018).

Pradeep A. Dhillon is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Policy, Organization, and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Her research straddles philosophy of language (Analytic, Continental, and Asian), philosophy of mind, aesthetics, and international education. She has a strong interest in Kantian value theory as it relates to aesthetics, cognition, and human rights education. She has published two books and numerous papers, and she is the editor of the Journal of Aesthetic Education.

Wimal Dissanayake is an affiliate professor at the Academy for Creative Media at the University of Hawai'i, USA. He is the author of several books on language, cinema and communication.

Fredric T. Dolezal is a member of the Graduate Faculty at the University of Georgia, USA. He is on the Advisory Board of the lexicographic journal Lexikos, published by AFRILEX (the African Association for Lexicography) and is the chair of the International Society for Historical Lexicography and Lexicology. His most recent edited volume, Synonymy and Sameness of Meaning, is a thematic issue of the International Journal of Lexicography (2013).

Stefan Dollinger is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He has published on various topics in historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and dialectology, including The Written Questionnaire in Social Dialectology (2015), and Creating Canadian English (2019). He is co-editor, with Margery Fee, of the second, open-access edition of A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles (2017).

Fiona Douglas is Lecturer in English Language in the School of English, University of Leeds, UK. Her academic interests include dialects and non-standard varieties of British English, corpus linguistics, and discourse analysis. In recent years, she has developed collaborative research methods involving museums and public audiences in dialect research. She is the author of Scottish Newspapers, Language and Identity (2009).

Patricia Friedrich is Professor in the School of Humanities,...