1. Series editor's preface: The World Englishes conference in Regensburg 2007 - a retrospective look (by Schneider, Edgar W.); 2. Acknowledgements; 3. Introduction (by Hoffmann, Thomas); 4. Deracialising the GOOSE vowel in South African English: Accelerated linguistic change amongst young, middle class females in post-apartheid South Africa (by Mesthrie, Rajend); 5. Codifying Ghanaian English: Problems and prospects (by Anderson, Jemima); 6. Corpus linguistics meets sociolinguistics: Studying educated spoken usage in Jamaica on the basis of the International Corpus of English (by Mair, Christian); 7. Rhoticity in educated Jamaican English: An analysis of the spoken component of ICE-Jamaica (by Rosenfelder, Ingrid); 8. Standard English in the secondary school in Trinidad: Problems - properties - prospects (by Deuber, Dagmar); 9. Australian English as a regional epicenter (by Peters, Pam); 10. Finding one's own vowel space: An acoustic analysis of the speech of Niuean New Zealanders (by Thompson, Laura); 11. Language in Hong Kong: Ten years on (1997-2007) (by Webster, Jonathan J.); 12. The roles of English in Southeast Asian legal systems (by Powell, Richard); 13. Not just an "Outer Circle", "Asian" English: Singapore English and the significance of ecology (by Lim, Lisa); 14. "Where's the party yaar!": Discourse particles in Indian English (by Lange, Claudia); 15. Innovation in second language phonology: Evidence from Hong Kong English (by Hung, Tony T.N.); 16. Intelligibility assessment of Japanese accents: A phonological study of science major students' speech (by Tsuzuki, Masako); 17. World Englishes between simplification and complexification (by Kortmann, Bernd); 18. Global feature - local norms?: A case study on the progressive passive (by Hundt, Marianne); 19. The shared core of the perfect across Englishes: A corpus-based analysis (by Rooy, Bertus van); 20. Word-formation in New Englishes: Properties and trends (by Biermeier, Thomas); 21. The indigenization of English in North America (by Mufwene, Salikoko S.); 22. Perspectives on English as a lingua franca (by Berns, Margie); 23. A discourse-historical approach to the English native speaker (by Hackert, Stephanie); 24. World Englishes and Peace Sociolinguistics: Towards a common goal of linguistic understanding (by Friedrich, Patricia); 25. New voices in the canon: The case for including World Englishes in literature (by Hallett, Jill); 26. Index