Immigrant Englishes Around the World

Immigrant Englishes Around the World is a collection that explores the varieties of English that emerge when speakers whose native languages are not English immigrate to an English-speaking country.

List of contents

1. Immigrant Englishes around the World - Erik R. Thomas; 2. Testing and Amplifying the Immigrant English Model: A View from South African Indian English - Rajend Mesthrie; 3. Dynamic Characteristics of price and mouth in Multicultural Australian English - Felicity Cox and Joshua Penney; 4. Multicultural London English - Christian Ilbury; 5. Asian Englishes in England: Exploring the Evaluation stage - Jessica Wormald; 6. New Speakers, New Identities, New Accents: Ethnicity and Accent in Glasgow -7. Midwestern U.S. Immigrant Englishes: An Emergent Dearborn English Contrasted with Established Regional Immigrant Englishes - Iman Sheydaei and Thomas Purnell; 8. Spanish-Contact English in New York City. Michael Newman, Victor Fernandez-Mallat, and Rafael Orozco; 9. English in Miami - Phillip M. Carter; 10. "That Spanish Twang:" Demographic shift and language contact outcomes in the Great Plains - Mary E. Kohn and Trevin Garcia; 11. Korean American English - Andrew Cheng and Lisa Jeon;12. Immigrant English(es) in Toronto - Michol F. Hoffman and James A. Walker; Index

About the author

Erik R. Thomas is a Professor in the English Department at North Carolina State University. He is the author of Sociophonetics: An Introduction and the editor of Mexican American English: Substrate Influence and the Birth of an Ethnolect.

Product details

• Authors: Erik R. Thomas
• Assisted by: Thomas Erik R. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 11.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032511016
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3251101-6
• No. of pages: 318
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Language: history & general works, Migration, immigration and emigration, Dialect, slang & jargon, Language: history and general works, Dialect, slang and jargon, International English