Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: sociolinguistic and english around the world / Jenny Cheshire
  • The UK and the USA / Jenny Cheshire
  • Ireland / John Harris
  • Urban and rural varieties of Hiberno-English / Markku Filppula
  • Sociolinguistic variation and methodology: after as a dublin variable / Jeffrey L. Kallen
  • The interpretation of social constraints on variation in belfast english / James Milroy
  • Canada / J.K. Chambers
  • Phonological variation and recent language change in St John´s english / Sandra Clarke
  • Sociophonetic variation in Vancouver / John H. Esling
  • Social differentiation in Ottawa english / Howard B. Woods
  • New Zealand / Allan Bell
  • Social constraints on the phonology of New Zealand english / Donn Bayard
  • Maori english: a New Zealand myth? / Richard A. Benton
  • Sporting formulae in New Zealand english: two mpodels of male solidarity / Koenraad Kuiper
  • Australia / Gregory R. Guy
  • /ae/ and/ a:/ in Australian english / David Bradley
  • Variation in subject-verb agreement in Inner Sydney english / Edina Eisikovits
  • Australian creole english: the effect of cultural knowledge on language and memory / Margaret S. Steffensen
  • South Asia / Thiru Kandiah
  • Final consonant cluster simplification in a variety of Indian english / Farhat Khan
  • Patterns of language use in a bilingual setting in India / Anju Sahgal
  • Speech acts in an indigenised variety: sociocultural values and language variation / Kamal K. Sridhar
  • Southeast Asia and Hongkong / Mary W. J. Tay
  • Stylistic shifts in the english of the Philippine print media / Andrew B. Gonzalez
  • Variation in Malaysian english: the pragmatics of languages in contact / Peter H. Lowenberg
  • Social and linguistic constraints on variation in the use of two grammatical variables in Singapore english / John Platt
  • East Africa (Tanzania and Kenya) / Mohamed M. H. Abdulaziz
  • The politics of the english in Kenya and Tanzania / Musimbi R. A. Kanyoro
  • National and subnational features in Kenyan english / Josef J. Schmied
  • Southern Africa / Maurice M. Chishimba
  • Sources and consequences of miscommunication in Afrikaans english-South African english encounters / Keith J. Chick
  • Syntactic variation in South African Indian english: the relative clause / Rajend Mesthrie
  • 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
  • West Africa / Eyamba G. Bokamba
  • The sociolingusics of prepositional usage in Nigerian english / Munzali Jibril
  • Social and linguistic constraints on plural marking in Liberian english / John Victor Singler
  • The Caribbean / Donald Winford
  • Standardisation in a creole continuum situation: the Guyana case / Hubert Devonish
  • Gender roles and lingustic variation in the Belizean Creole community{ aEscureGeneviere
  • Sociolinguistic variation in Cane Walk: a quantitative case study / John R. Rickford
  • The Pacific / Suzanne Romaine
  • Watching girls pass by in Tok Pisin / Peter Mühlhäusler
  • Sociolinguistic variation and language attitudes in Hawaii / Charlene J. Sato
  • Variation in Fiji english / Jeff Siegel