Selected Bibliography of Englishes

Статья из издания: Links & Letters. — 1998. — Vol. 5 . — P. 275-292.A short bibliography for the vast conglomerate ‘field’ of englishes will seem a risky business to anyone who knows a bit about the topic. A browse through the two major bibliographies which tackle englishes world-wide, and which cover the years 1965 to 1993, will reveal the immense amount of literature of all kinds which exists. Fortunately, this bibliography does not attempt to satisfy the specialist, but tries to provide a gateway into the maze and to set up signposts to help the intelligent layman to start to explore the different varieties, the conceptual topics of interest for which there is a recognized research discourse or tradition (e.g. language/dialect contact phenomena, bilingualism, code-switching, accommodation, acquisition, etc.), and the related theoretical/methodological paradigms and approaches (e.g. sociolinguistic, ethnolinguistic, geolinguistic, etc.). Inevitably, the personal choices of the compiler may be rather idiosyncratic, and every informed reader will probably note the unforgivable absence of ‘fundamental’ or ‘favourite’ publications, even of whole topics. I hope that, in spite of these gaps, the choice will be of some use to the general reader.