Editor: Cecil Nelson
Bio:   Braj B. Kachru is Centre for Advanced Study Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is co-founder and co-editor of the journal World Englishes, published by Wiley-Blackwell.



Yamuna Kachru is Professor Emerita in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has authored and edited over a dozen books and monographs and published over a hundred papers and reviews on South Asian languages, cross-cultural discourse, and communicative styles in world Englishes.



Cecil L. Nelson is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at Indiana State University, Terre Haute. He is the review editor of the journal World Englishes and co-authored, with Yamuna Kachru, World Englishes in Asian Contexts (2006).
Editor: Braj Kachru
Bio:   Braj B. Kachru is Centre for Advanced Study Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is co-founder and co-editor of the journal World Englishes, published by Wiley-Blackwell.



Yamuna Kachru is Professor Emerita in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has authored and edited over a dozen books and monographs and published over a hundred papers and reviews on South Asian languages, cross-cultural discourse, and communicative styles in world Englishes.



Cecil L. Nelson is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at Indiana State University, Terre Haute. He is the review editor of the journal World Englishes and co-authored, with Yamuna Kachru, World Englishes in Asian Contexts (2006).
Editor: Yamuna Kachru
Bio:   Braj B. Kachru is Centre for Advanced Study Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is co-founder and co-editor of the journal World Englishes, published by Wiley-Blackwell.



Yamuna Kachru is Professor Emerita in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has authored and edited over a dozen books and monographs and published over a hundred papers and reviews on South Asian languages, cross-cultural discourse, and communicative styles in world Englishes.



Cecil L. Nelson is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at Indiana State University, Terre Haute. He is the review editor of the journal World Englishes and co-authored, with Yamuna Kachru, World Englishes in Asian Contexts (2006).

"The book offers a wealth of material, especially in establishing the theoretical foundations for a broad range of fields in the study of World Englishes." - Journal of Sociolinguistics, January 2009

"The volume is a remarkable work of scholarship and provides a real wealth of data and ideas, which, I am sure, will stimulate further research." - World Englishes, 2008

"[This] book offers a wealth of material, especially in establishing the theoretical foundations for a broad range of fields in the study of World Englishes.... A useful addition to the Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics series, and as such it will probably be much valued by many students and scholars around the world." - Journal of Sociolinguistics, February 2009

"A fascinating selection of papers that comprehensively cover a wide range of topics.... The volume is a remarkable work of scholarship and provides a real wealth of data and ideas, which, I am sure, will stimulate further research." - World Englishes, February 2009

"The editors of The handbook of World Englishes.... have produced a book that is, certainly, a milestone in the study of World Englishes." - Journal of Linguistics, February 2009

"[The title] has a nice blend of chapters that are primarily devoted to review of literature and synthesis of theoretical and methodological approaches.... The volume will be of interest to anyone working in English linguistics." - English World-Wide, February 2009

"The appetite of many language scholars and students will be satiated with this collection of papers devoted to the exploration of 'World Englishes' ... .[The book] displays for the most part: accessibility; authority; contemporaneity and interdisciplinarity." - Language Policy, August 2007

"A milestone in the study of World Englishes." - Linguistics