Jennifer Jenkins is Emeritus Professor of Global Englishes at the University of Southampton, where she was Founding Director of the Centre for Global Englishes research.

Sonia Morán Panero is a lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Southampton and a founding member of the Centre for Global Englishes research.

List of figures and tables

Preface to the fourth edition

Acknowledgements

Unit 1 The historical, social, and political context

1A Introduction to the historical, social, and political context

1B The legacy of colonialism

1C Postcolonial Africa and North America

1D The discourses of postcolonialism

Unit 2 Who speaks English today?

2A Who speaks English today?

2B The English Today debate

2C Teaching and testing global Englishes

2D Who owns English today?

Unit 3 English as an international lingua franca

3A English as an international lingua franca

3B The nature of ELF communication

3C The evolution of thinking about ELF

3D Looking ahead

Unit 4 English and ELF in global education

4A English and ELF in global education

4B Towards the ELF-informed ELT classroom

4C Problematising English in EMI higher education

4D The end of 'international' standardized English language testing?

Unit 5 Standard language ideology in the Anglophone world

5A Standard language ideology in the Anglophone world

5B Diversity across the Anglophone space

5C Standards across channels

5D Is language (still) power in the Inner Circle?

Unit 6 Variation across postcolonial Englishes

6A Variation across postcolonial Englishes

6B 'Legitimate' and 'illegitimate' offspring of English

6C 'Sub'-varieties of English: the example of singlish

6D From language to literature

Unit 7 English in Asia, Europe, and Latin America

7A English in Asia, Europe, and Latin America

7B En route to new linguistic practices

7C Asian Englishes: focus on India, Hong Kong, and China

7D Attitudes to non-native Englishes in China

Unit 8 The future of global Englishes

8A Introduction to the future of global Englishes

8B Possible future scenarios

8C Language killer or language promoter?

8D Looking ahead

Further reading

References

Glossarial index