The conceptualisation of World Englishes with a theoretical framework actually goes back to
the early 1960s (Kachru, 1965). However, organised efforts in discussing the concept and its …

The present international status of English is rightly justified on the basis of the numerical
strength of its non-native speakers; the crosscultural and localized functional range the …

This paper addresses the issue of the relationship between world Englishes (WE) and
applied linguistics. The diffusion of English is seen in terms of three concentric circles: the …

This book provides crucial reading for students and researchers of world Englishes. It is an
insightful and provocative study of the forms and functions of English in Asia, its …

It is argued that there is a paradigm gap that has prevented research on second‐language
acquisition (SLA) theory and indigenized varieties of English (IVEs) from making substantive …

The bibliography following the body of this paper contains a total of 1,092 entries on the
subject of diglossia. Entries dealing with diglossia in the classical sense of Ferguson (1959) …

The very notion of “Indian English “(IndE) has been fiercely contested both by linguists who
happen to be interested in New Englishes and by more or less everyone concerned with the …

Research on indigenized non‐native varieties of English has aimed to distinguish these
varieties from individual second language learning in structural and social terms (B. Kachru …

Stable nonnative varieties of English acquired and used in the absence of native English
input can diverge systematically from native varieties over time (Cheshire, 1991; Kachru …

Apparent similarities between linguistic processes involved in second‐language acquisition
and in the nativization of norms in non‐native varieties of English have led many …