Immigrant Englishes Around the World

by Erik R. Thomas (Editor)

Overview

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. The book examines the commonalities and diversity of immigrant varieties of English that may be seen from a comparison of groups with different heritage languages in different English-speaking nations around the world.

Written by established researchers who all have conducted work with communities of immigrants or their descendants, the chapters explore immigrant Englishes across Great Britain, Australia, South Africa, and North America. Covering the theoretical grounding that unifies immigrant Englishes across the globe and using a model that is designed specifically for immigrant groups, the book focusses on how the communities as a whole develop their own distinctive ways of speaking English.

This comprehensive comparison of immigrant dialects across the English-speaking world is essential reading for advanced students and researchers of sociolinguistics, language and migration, and language variation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032511047
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/29/2025
Pages:	314
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table 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 - Ebtehal Al-Asiri, Nate Haj Bakir, Divyanshi Shaktawat, Farhana Shaukat-Alam†, and Jane Stuart-Smith; 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, Víctor Fernández-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