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Further Studies in the Lesser-Known Varieties of English (Studies in English Language) - Hardcover

Book 37 of 59: Studies in English Language

Edited By Jeffrey P. Williams , Edgar W. Schneider , Peter Trudgill , Daniel Schreier

 
9781107021204: Further Studies in the Lesser-Known Varieties of English (Studies in English Language)

Synopsis

This book documents the lesser-known varieties of English which have been overlooked and understudied within the canon of English linguistics.

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About the Authors

Jeffrey P. Williams is Professor of Anthropology at Texas Tech University. He previously taught at the University of Sydney and Cleveland State University. Most recently he edited The Aesthetics of Grammar: Sound and Meaning in the Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia (Cambridge, 2014).

Edgar W. Schneider is Professor and Chair of English Linguistics at Universität Regensburg, Germany. He has published and lectured on all continents on topics in the dialectology, sociolinguistics, history, and semantics of English and its varieties. He edited the scholarly journal English World-Wide for many years and has written and edited about twenty books, including Handbook of Varieties of English (2004, 2008), Postcolonial English (Cambridge, 2007) and English around the World (Cambridge, 2011).

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