Publisher's Synopsis
This is a survey of English both as a pre-eminent world language and as a divergent language. It covers a range of dialects and languages, including UK dialects, Spanglish, Jamaican Creole, Yinglish and Chicano English.
About the Publisher
Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Our products cover an extremely broad academic and educational spectrum, and we aim to make our content available to our users in whichever format suits them best.We publish for all audiences-from pre-school to secondary level schoolchildren; students to academics; general readers to researchers; individuals to institutions. Our range includes dictionaries, English language teaching materials, children's books, journals, scholarly monographs, printed music, higher education textbooks, and schoolbooks.
