Global Englishes: A Resource Book for Students

Routledge English Language Introductions

by Jennifer Jenkins, Sonia Morán Panero

Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.

Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, and commentaries.

Global Englishes, Fourth Edition has been fully revised and updated and provides an introduction to the subject that is both accessible and comprehensive.

Key features of this best-selling textbook

• coverage of the major historical, linguistic, and sociopolitical developments in the English language from the start of the seventeenth century to the present day;

• exploration of the current debates in Global Englishes, relating to its uses as a post-colonial language in Asia and Africa, a mother tongue in the US, UK, and Antipodes, and lingua franca across the globe, with a strong emphasis on China;

• new material on Latin America, English as a lingua franca, and English medium instruction;

• a range of texts, data, and examples drawn from emails, tweets, and newspapers;

• readings from key scholars including Alastair Pennycook, Henry Widdowson, and Lesley Milroy;

• updated online support material providing additional materials that are closely linked to each unit of the book.

Global Englishes, Fourth Edition provides a dynamic and engaging introduction to this fascinating topic and is essential reading for all students studying global Englishes more broadly, English as a Lingua Franca specifically, and the factors involved in the spread of English in the world today.

Genres: Reference, Linguistics

303 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2014

About the author

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Jennifer Jenkins studied English language and literature, Old Icelandic, and linguistics/applied linguistics at the Universities of Leicester, Oxford, and London, and in the earlier years of her career, was first an English language teacher then teacher trainer. From 1992 to mid-2007 she worked at King's College London, where she designed and directed the MA in ELT & Applied Linguistics, and since then have been Professor of Global Englishes at Southampton. She was Reviews Editor of the International Journal of Applied Linguistics from 2004 through 2009, and is currently a member of several journal Editorial Boards including TESOL Quarterly and Language Teaching, as well as consultant to the English Project. She recently became founding co-editor of both the new Journal of English as a Lingua Franca and the book series Developments in English as a Lingua Franca (both DeGruyter Mouton).

Reviews

[Diane · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book presents many concepts, points about linguistics, and social impacts of English variations and standardizations. Several sections include reproductions of influential thinkpieces by scholars.

The organization is unusual: chapters with 4 lettered sections in each numbered chapter (so there's ch. 1 part A, B, C, D). This made reading feel a little disjointed but the author intended it to make reading follow one of two possible reading paths.

[Julia P · Rating 2 out of 5]

It wasn't bad, but it was brutal at the end especially in section D.

[Elj · Rating 5 out of 5]

What can I say, I just love linguistics🫶

[Kathryn · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great book on World Englishes!

[Karla Kitalong · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a text for perhaps upper-division linguistics students. The last section and especially the final chapter by Alistair Pennycook, interested me the most.