concerned with the expansion of English around the world and with its
development into distinctive first, second and foreign language
varieties, these having been subject to different classifications and
models of analysis (see specially Kachru 1986, McArthur 1998 and
Schneider 2007). The spread and globalization of English has proved to
be of interest in the study of diverse linguistic phenomena, as well as
a testing ground for various frameworks and research traditions, among
them typological linguistics, second language acquisition, contact
linguistics and sociolinguistics.
methodological perspective the study of World Englishes poses a
attempts have been made to address these in corpus linguistics,
fieldwork and variationist studies. The aim of this conference is to
to this increasingly fashionable but still largely under-explored field
research by bringing together ideas from different frameworks and
these dealing with any aspect of Englishes today in terms of their
status and development.