Varieties of English

This module contains cover illustrations for a variety of books relevant to the themes dealt with on this website.
For the full references, please consult the Reference Guide

Note that in some cases I had an earlier edition of a book at my disposal so that there may be a slight discrepancy between the cover image and the reference given below it.

Varieties of English General World Englishes The British Isles Britain Scotland Ireland North America United States African American English Caribbean Canada Africa South Africa West Africa Asia Australia and New Zealand Pidgins and Creoles

Varieties of English

General

Tagliamonte, Sali A. 2013. Roots of English. Exploring the History of Dialects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Wright, Joseph 1905. English dialect grammar. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Bailey, Richard W. and Manfred Görlach (eds) 1982. English as a world language. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Cheshire, Jenny (ed.) 1991. English around the world. Sociolinguistic perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Schneider, Edgar W. 2011. English Around the World. An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Crystal, David 2003. English as a Global Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Crystal, David 2004. The Stories of English. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola and Devyani Sharma (eds) 2017. The Oxford Handbook of World Englishes. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English, Heidelberg, later Amsterdam, 1980-

García, Ofelia and Ricardo Otheguy (eds.) 1989. English across Cultures. Cultures across English. A reader in cross-cultural communication. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Gramley, Stephan 2001. The vocabulary of world English. London: Arnold.

Hickey, Raymond (ed) 2004. Legacies of colonial English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hughes, Arthur, Peter Trudgill and Dominic Watts 2005. English accents and dialects. An introduction to social and regional varieties of British English. Fourth edition. London: Hodder Arnold.

Kachru, Braj B. (ed.) 1982. The other tongue. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Kortmann, Bernd 2003. Dialectology Meets Typology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Lockwood, W. B. 1975. Languages of the British Isles past and present. London: André Deutsch.

McArthur, Tom 1992. The Oxford companion to the English language. (Concise Edition) Oxford: Oxford University Press.

McArthur, Tom 1998. The English languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

McArthur, Tom 1992. The Oxford companion to the English language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

McArthur, Tom 2002. The Oxford guide to world English. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Schneider, Edgar 2007. Postcolonial English. Varieties around the World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Schneider, Klaus P. and Anne Barron (eds) 2008. Variational Pragmatics. A focus on regional varieties in pluricentric languages. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Kortmann, Bernd and Clive Upton (eds) 2007. Varieties of English. Vol. 1: The British Isles. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Schneider, Edgar (eds) 2007. Varieties of English. Vol. 2: The Americas and the Caribbean. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Burridge, Kate and Bernd Kortmann (eds) 2007. Varieties of English. Vol. 3: The Pacific and Australasia. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Mesthrie, Rajend (eds) 2007. Varieties of English. Vol. 4: Africa, South and Southeast Asia. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Anderwald, Lieselotte 2002. Negation in non-standard British English. Gaps, regularizations and asymmetrics. London: Routledge.

Bryson, Bill 1990. Mother tongue. The English language. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Bryson, Bill 1984. The Penguin Dictionary of Troublesome Words. London: Allen Lane.

Burke, Peter and Roy Porter (eds) 1991. Language, self, and society. A social history of language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

World Englishes

Kachru, Braj, Yamuna Kachru and Cecil L. Nelson (eds) 2006. The Handbook of World Englishes. Oxford: Blackwell.

Kachru, Braj 1990. The alchemy of English. The spread, functions, and models of non-native Englishes.. Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

Kachru, Braj, Yamuna Kachru and S. N. Sridhar (eds) 2007. Language in South Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Melchers, Gunnel and Philip Shaw 1999. World Englishes. London: Arnold.

Mesthrie, Rajend and Rakesh M. Bhatt 2008. World Englishes. An Introduction to New Language Varieties. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

The British Isles

Britain

Trudgill, Peter 1999. The Dialects of England. Second edition. Oxford: Blackwell.

Britain, David (ed.) 2007. Language in the British Isles. 2nd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Milroy, James and Lesley Milroy (eds) 1993. Real English. The grammar of the English dialects in the British Isles. Real Language Series London: Longman.

Foulkes, Paul and Gerry Docherty (eds) 1999. Urban Voices. London: Edward Arnold.

Trudgill, Peter (ed.) 1984. Language in the British Isles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Wales, Katie 2006. Northern English. A social and cultural history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Scotland

Aitken, Adam J. and Tom McArthur (eds.) 1979. Languages of Scotland. Edinburgh: Chambers.

Corbett, John, J. Derrick McClure and Jane Stuart-Smith (eds) 2003. The Edinburgh companion to Scots. Edinburgh: University Press.

Dossena, Marina 2005. Scotticisms in Grammar and Vocabulary. Edinburgh: John Donald.

Görlach, Manfred (ed.) 1985. Focus on: Scotland. Varieties of English around the World, General Series, Vol. 5. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Görlach, Manfred 2002. A Textual History of Scots. Heidelberg: Carl Winter.

Lynch, Michael (ed.) 2007. The Oxford Companion to Scottish History. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

McColl Millar, Robert 2007. Northern and Insular Scots. Edinburgh: University Press.

Purves, David 2002. A Scots Grammar. Scots Grammar and Usage. Revised edition. Edinburgh: The Saltire Society.

Watson, Roderick 2006 [1984]. The Literature of Scotland. Macmillan History of English Literature. Second edition. London: Macmillan.

Ireland

Barron, Anne and Klaus Schneider (eds) 2005. The pragmatics of Irish English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Filppula, Markku 1999. The Grammar of Irish English. Language in Hibernian style. London: Routledge.

Hickey, Raymond 2007. Irish English. History and present-day forms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hickey, Raymond 2005. Dublin English. Evolution and change. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Hickey, Raymond 2004. A Sound Atlas of Irish English. Topics in English Linguistics 48. Berlin/NewYork: Mouton de Gruyter.

Kallen, Jeffrey L. (ed.) 1997. Focus on Ireland. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

McCafferty, Kevin 2001. Ethnicity and Language Change. English in (London)Derry, Northern Ireland. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Hickey, Raymond 2002. A Source Book for Irish English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

North America

United States

Andrews, David R. 1999. Sociocultural Perspectives on Language Change in Diaspora. Soviet immigrants in the United States. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Dillard, Joey Lee 1992. A history of American English. London: Longman.

Ferguson, Charles A. and Shirley B. Heath (eds) 1981. Language in the USA. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hostetler, John 1993. Amish Society. Fourth edition. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press.

Frey, J. William 1981. A Simple Grammar of Pennsylvanian Dutch. Lancaster, PA: John Baers and Son.

Kurath, Hans 1973. Studies in Area Linguistics. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Nagle, Stephen and Sara L. Sanders (eds) 2003. English in the Southern United States. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Schneider, Edgar W. (ed.) 1996. Focus on the USA. Varieties of English Around the World, General Series, Vol. 16. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Wolfram, Walt and Natalie Schilling-Estes 2005. American English. Dialects and variation. Second edition. Oxford: Blackwell.

Wolfram, Walt and Ben Ward 2005. American voices. How dialects differ from coast to coast. Oxford: Blackwell.

African American English

Lanehart, Sonja (ed.) 2015. The Oxford Handbook of African American Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Green, Lisa J. 2002. African American English. A linguistic introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Mufwene, Salikoko (ed.) 1993. Africanisms in Afro-American language varieties. Athens/London: University of Georgia Press.

Poplack, Shana (ed.) 2000. The English history of African American Vernacular English. Oxford: Blackwell.

Poplack, Shana and Sali Tagliamonte 2001. African American English in the diaspora. Oxford: Blackwell.

Rickford, John 1999. African American Vernacular English. Features, evolution, educational implications. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Wolfram, Walt and Erik R. Thomas 2002. The development of African American English. Oxford: Blackwell.

Caribbean

Görlach, Manfred and John Holm (eds) 1986. Focus on the Caribbean. Varieties of English around the World, General Series, Vol. 8. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Le Page, Robert and Andrée Tabouret Keller 1985. Acts of Identity. Creole-based Approaches to Language and Ethnicity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Canada

Edwards, John (ed.) 1998. Language in Canada. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

South Africa

Mesthrie, Rajend (ed.) 2002. Language in South Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Webb, Vic 2002. Language in South Africa. The role of language in national transformation, reconstruction and development. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Gilmour, Rachael 2006. Grammars of Colonialism. Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

West Africa

Huber, Magnus 1999. Ghanaian Pidgin English in its West African context. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Asia

Baumgardner, Robert J. 1996. South Asian English: Structure, Use, and Users. Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

Bolton, Kingsley and Braj Kachru (eds) 2007. Asian Englishes. London: Routledge.

Bolton, Kingsley 2003. Chinese Englishes. A Sociolinguistic History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Bolton, Kingsley (ed.) 2002. Hong Kong English: Autonomy and creativity. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.

Deterding, David 2007. Singapore English. Edinburgh: University Press.

Foley, Joseph (ed.) 1988. New Englishes. The case of Singapore. Singapore: University of Singapore Press.

Ooi, Vincent (ed.) 2001. Evolving Identities. The English Language in Singapore and Malaysia. Singapore: Times Academic Press.

Australia and New Zealand

Blair, David and Peter Collins (eds) 2001. English in Australia. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Bell, Allan and Koenraad Kuiper (eds) 2000. New Zealand English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Burridge, Kate and Jean Mulder 1998. English in Australia and New Zealand. An introduction to its history, structure and use. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Gordon, Elizabeth, Lyle Campbell, Jennifer Hay, Margaret MacLagan, Andrea Sudbury and Peter Trudgill. in press. The origins and development of New Zealand English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hay, Jennifer, Margaret Maclagan and Elizabeth Gordon 2008. New Zealand English. Edinburgh: University Press.

Macalister, John 2005. A Dictionary of Maori Words in New Zealand English. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Peters, Pam 2004. The Cambridge Guide to English Usage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Reed, Carroll E. 1977. Dialects of American English. 2nd edition. Amherst, MA.

Romaine, Suzanne (ed.) 1991. Language in Australia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Pidgins and Creoles

Holm, John A. 2000. An introduction to pidgins and creoles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Romaine, Suzanne 1988. Pidgin and creole languages. London: Longman.

Sebba, Mark 1997. Contact languages. Pidgins and creoles. London: Macmillan.

Todd, Loreto 1990. Pidgins and Creoles. Second edition. London: Routledge.