The occurrence of loanwords that have been Arabicized or nativised in the gaming genre
necessitates an investigation into the nature and implications of this phenomenon. The …

This chapter presents a brief historical overview of English in Korea and discusses how
English is now used in contemporary Korean society, particularly in cultural domains, while …

The realities of English use and users around the world have changed considerably over the
last two hundred years: Whereas it was once easily possible to categorize individuals into …

This paper analyzes fronting constructions in spoken Korean (ized) English. Non-canonical
syntax is an important means of structuring discourse, but its use by speakers of Expanding …

Over the last 30 years there has been an upsurge in research and theorising on postcolonial
Englishes. Beginning with Kachru's (1985) Three Circles model, more recently the focus has …

Type the word 'Englishes' into a Word document, as I have just done, and it is still,
stubbornly, coming up as an error. For many reading this book, we already know that this …

This article presents an investigation into what norms are negotiated in a CALL classrooms
by non-native speakers of English who are Internet novices. There is an on-going debate …

This article focuses on the use of like by Korean speakers of English. South Korea is a
fascinating context for world Englishes studies: English is generally learned as a foreign …

This article theorizes how the privileging of “intentional” deviations from ostensibly
mainstream Englishes represents a form of epistemic violence that replicates and sustains …

Englishes from expanding circle countries are often stigmatized, and deviations from so-
called 'standard'varieties are commonly viewed as errors or mistakes. Yet such varieties …