1st Edition

Immigrant Englishes Around the World

Edited By Erik R. Thomas Copyright 2025
314 Pages 48 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

314 Pages 48 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

314 Pages 48 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

List of contributors

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 and 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

Biography

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.