Professor Braj Kachru (b. 1932) has pioneered, shaped and defined the scholarly field of world Englishes. He is the founder and co-editor of World Englishes, the associate editor of the Oxford Companion to the English Language and contributor to the Cambridge History of the English Language. His research on world Englishes, the Kashmiri language and literature, and theoretical and applied studies on language and society has resulted in more than 25 authored and edited volumes and more than 100 research papers, review articles, and reviews.

The second volume of these Collected Works contains selections of some of Kachru’s most important work in the field of World Englishes from the years between the 1992 and 2001.

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Acknowledgements
1. The Second Diaspora of English (1992)
2. New Englishes (1994)
3. The Speaking Tree: a Medium of Plural Canons (1995)
4. Transcultural creativity in World Englishes and literary Canons (1995)
5. World Englishes (1996)
6. The Paradigms of Marginality (1996)
7. English as Lingua Franca (1996)
8. World Englishes 2000: Resources for research and teaching (1997)
9. World Englishes and culture wars (2001)
Bibliography
Index

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Volume 2 of these Collected Works covers the work of Professor Braj Kachru, one of the pioneers of world Englishes as a concept, from 1992 to 2001.
Kachru is a pioneer of world Englishes as a term, and a concept.

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ISBN
9781441194411
Publisert
2015-02-26
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic USA
Vekt
536 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
248

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Biographical note

Professor Braj Kachru is Center for Advanced Study Professor of Linguistics and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois Emeritus, USA

Professor Jonathan J. Webster is Director of The Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies at City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.