The most compact, authoritative, single-volume source of information about the English language available, this new edition of the Oxford Companion to the English Language increases coverage of World Englishes and the impact of technological advances on the English language. It is essential for reference and fascinating for browsing.

Over 1,400 fascinating, readable A to Z entries on all aspects of the English language, including more than 130 new entriesIncreased focus on the international perspective, with new entries including African American English, China English, English as an Additional Language (EAL), multicultural London English, superdiversity, and translanguaging, and significant expansion of other relevant entriesHeavily expanded coverage of the effect of technology on the English language, in new entries such as blog, Computer-Mediated Communication, digital literacy, online language play, social networking sites, Virtual Learning Environment, and Web 1.0 and 2.0Expansion of the area of English language teaching, with entries such as Computer-Assisted Language Learning, ELT, English Language Arts, English Medium Instruction (EMI), and substantial revision of the entry on Language TeachingUpdated information on linguistic theory, including new entries on conversation analysis, ecolinguistics, functional grammars, and multimodality

Tom McArthur is an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists, London, 2002-, and the founder editor of the quarterly journal  English Today (CUP), serving from 1984-2007. He was also Director of the Extra-Mural Centre for English Language Studies at the University of Edinburgh (1979-84), and Associate Professor of English at the Université du Québec, Canada, (1979-84). Since 1985 he has been an editor, writer, lecturer, and ELT consultant. He has broadcast with the BBC (UK), CBC (Canada), and ABC (Australia), and has lectured and presented papers in over twenty countries. Jacqueline Lam-McArthur is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists; Chief Moderator for the Diploma in Translation (DipTrans) and the International Diploma in Bilingual Communications (IDBC) at the Institute of Linguists, London; and examiner, marker, and vetter for Chinese (Putonghua/Mandarin and Cantonese) for the Diplomatic Service Language Allowance Examination at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London. Lise Fontaine is a Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University in the Centre for Language and Communication Research (CLCR) where she lectures mainly on functional grammar, word meaning, corpus linguistics, and psycholinguistics. Her research interests include functional grammar theory and, more specifically, the study of referring expressions as realised in the noun phrase. In addition to publishing over 20 articles and book chapters, she is the author of  Analyzing English Grammar: A systemic-functional introduction (CUP, 2012). She has also co-edited  Systemic Functional Linguistics: Exploring Choice (CUP, 2013);  Choice in Language (Equinox, 2013);  Perspectives from Systemic Functional Linguistics: An Appliable Theory of Language (Routledge, printing), and  The Cambridge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics (CUP, printing). Contributors to the second edition: Michelle Aldridge Brook Bolander Wendy L. Bowcher Chang Chenguang Mercedes Durham Anne McCabe Anne Mangen Gerard O'Grady Luke Rudge Muhammad Shaban Tereza Spilioti Erich Steiner Caroline Tagg  Jonathan Webster Shigeru Yamada Contributors to the first edition: Jean Aitchison A. J. Aitken John Algeo Robert E. Allen Jon Amastae Tony Augarde Richard W. Bailey William W. Barker Dennis E. Baron Laurie Bauer John Baugh Paul Beale David Blair Eyamba G. Bokamba Whitney F. Bolton Jean Branford William Branford Lawrence B. Breitborde Christopher J. Brumfit Robert W. Burchfield Garland Cannon Lawrence D. Carrington Frederic G. Cassidy Sylvia Chalker Raymond Chapman Paul Christophersen Isagani R. Cruz David Crystal W. D. Wimal Dissanayake Connie C. Eble John Edwards Stanley Ellis Margery Fee Jean-Marc Gachelin Charles Gilman Andrew Gonzales Sidney Greenbaum Anjum R. Haque Reinhard Hartmann Mohamed H. Heliel Geoffrey Hughes Robert F. Ilson Braj B. Kachru Yamuna Kachru Gillian S. Kay Francis E. Knowles Gerald Knowles Margot Lawrence Sangsup Lee Michael Lesk Peter H. Lowenberg William D. Lutz Iseabail C. McLeod Rejend Mesthrie Salikoko S. Mufwene Walter Nash Cecil L. Nelson Noel E. Osselton Frank R. Palmer Rajeshwari Pandharipande John Platt René James Quinault William S. Ramson Suzanne Romaine Adrian Room William Shephard Larry E. Smith S. N. Sridhar James Stanlaw Sol Steinmetz Peter Strevens Mary Tay Loreto Todd Barry Tomalin Peter Trudgill Christopher Upward Laurence Urdang Katie Wales Heidi Weber Edmund Weiner Lise S. Winer Margaret E. Winters Consultants: Richard Allwright Jacqueline Anderson Lourdes B. Bautista Ben Benedikz Roger Bowers J. K. Chambers Sandra Clarke Rachel Davis Agnes Drever Robert A. Dunbar Anna Dunlop Barbara Goldsmid David Gough Barbara Harris Tom Hecht Joan Hughes Sally Hunt Fadilah Jasmani S. Johansson Damian J. Kelly Virginia LaCastro Leonhard Lipka Louise McIvor Kevin McNamee David I. Masson Dhun Mehta Godfrey Meintjes Tatsuo Miyajima Diarmaid Ó hAirt Maria-Grazia Pederzani Mary Penrith Frederick H. G. Percy Peter Pitman Arnold D. N. Pitt Graham Pointon Velma Pollard Camilla Raab F. Gordon Rohlehr A. O. Sanved Sybil Sarel Donald Scragg John Singler

Over 1,400 fascinating, readable A to Z entries on all aspects of the English language, including more than 130 new entries Increased focus on the international perspective, with new entries including  African American English ,  China English ,  English as an Additional Language (EAL) ,  multicultural London English ,  superdiversity , and  translanguaging , and significant expansion of other relevant entries Heavily expanded coverage of the effect of technology on the English language, in new entries such as  blog ,  Computer-Mediated Communication ,  digital literacy ,  online language play ,  social networking sites ,  Virtual Learning Environment , and  Web 1.0 and 2.0 Expansion of the area of English language teaching, with entries such as  Computer-Assisted Language Learning ,  ELT ,  English Language Arts ,  English Medium Instruction (EMI) , and substantial revision of the entry on  Language Teaching Updated information on linguistic theory, including new entries on  conversation analysis ,  ecolinguistics ,  functional grammars , and  multimodality