English around the world : sociolinguistic perspectives / edited by Jenny Cheshire.

Contents
Sociolinguistics and English around the World Jenny Cheshire
1. The UK and the USA Jenny Cheshire
2. Ireland John Harris
3. Urban and rural varieties of Hiberno-English Markku Filppula
4. Sociolinguistic variation and methodology: after as a Dublin variable Jeffrey L. Kallen
5. The interpretation of social constraints on variation in Belfast English James Milroy
6. Canada J. K. Chambers
7. Phonological variation and recent language change in St John's English Sandra Clarke
8. Sociophonetic variation in Vancouver John H. Esling
9. Social differentiation in Ottowa English Howard B. Woods
10. New Zealand Allan Bell, and Janet Holmes
11. Social constraints on the phonology of New Zealand English Donn Bayard
12. Maori English: a New Zealand myth? Richard A. Benton
13. Sporting formulae in New Zealand English: two models of male solidarity Koenraad Kuiper
14. Australia Gregory Guy
15. /ae/ and /a:/ in Australian English David Bradley
16. Variation in subject-verb agreement in inner Sydney English Edina Eisikovits
17. Australian Creole English: the effect of cultural knowledge on language and memory Margaret T. S. Steffensen
18. South Asia Thiru Kandiah
19. Final consonant cluster simplification in a variety of Indian English Farhat Khan
20. Patterns of language use in a bilingual setting in India Anju Sahgal
21. Speech acts in an indigenised variety: sociocultural values and language variation Kamal K. Sridhar
22. Southeast Asia and Hongkong Mary W. J. Tay
23. Stylistic shifts in the English of the Philippine print media Andrew B. Gonzalez
24. Variation in Malaysian English: the pragmatics of languages in contact Peter H. Lowenberg
25. Social and linguistic constraints on variation in the use of two grammatical variables in Singapore English John Platt
26. East Africa (Tanzania and Kenya) Mohammed M. H. Abdulaziz
27. The politics of the English language in Kenya and Tanzania Musimbi R. A. Kanyoro
28. National and subnational features in Kenyan English Josef J. Schmied
29. Southern Africa Maurice M. Chishimba
30. Sources and consequences of miscommunication in Afrikaans English - South African English encounters J. Keith Chick
31. Syntactic variation in South African Indian English: the relative clause Rajend Mesthrie
32. The social significance of language use and language choice in a Zambian urban setting: an empirical study of three neighbourhoods in Lusaka Alice K. Siachitema
33. West Africa Eyamba G. Bokamba
34. The pronoun system in Nigerian Pidgin: a preliminary study Nicholas Faraclas
35. The sociolinguistics of prepositional usage in Nigerian English Munzali Jibril
36. Social and linguistic constraints on plural marking in Liberian English John Victor Singlar
37. The Caribbean Donald Winford
38. Standardisation in a Creole continuum situation: the Guyana case Hubert Devonish
39. Gender roles and linguistic variation in the Belizean Creole community Genevieve Escure
40. Sociolinguistic variation in Cane Walk: a quantitative case study John R. Rickford
41. The Pacific Suzanne Romaine
42. Watching girls pass by in Tok Pisin Peter Muhihausler
43. Sociolinguistic variation and language attitudes in Hawaii Peter Muhihausler
44. Variation in Fiji English Jeff Siegel.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.