TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kachru, Yamuna
AU  - Smith, Larry E.
TI  - Cultures, contexts, and world Englishes
SN  - 978-0-8058-4733-8
AV  - 427.009 K11c 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - English language
KW  - Variation
KW  - Dialects
KW  - Foreign countries
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Communication, International
KW  - Sociolinguistics
N1  - Includes bibliographic references and index; Introduction : world Englishes and cultural contexts -- Part I : verbal interaction and intelligibility -- Interaction as cooperation -- Context of culture -- Parameters of politeness -- Intelligibility and interlocutors -- Part II : sound, sentence, and word -- Sounds and rhythm -- Phrases and sentences -- Words and collocations -- Part III : conversational and writing styles -- Converstional interaction -- Interaction in writing -- Contextualizing world Englished literatures -- Conclusion : world Englished : legacy and relevance
N2  - This volume familiarizes readers with the varieties of world Englishes used across cultures and creates awareness of some of the linguistic and socially relevant contexts and functions that have given rise to them
ER  -