In:World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies
Edited by Peter Siemund, Gardy Stein and Manuela Vida-Mannl
[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity 9] 2025
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Published online: 24 April 2025
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Table of contents
List of contributorsIX
Investigating World Englishes in their local multilingual ecologies: An introduction1
Manuela Vida-Mannl
Gardy Stein
Peter Siemund
Part I.Theory
Chapter 1.Prologue12
Edgar W. Schneider
Chapter 2.World Englishes and the third space: Insights from multilingual practices in Xhosa and English20
Rajend Mesthrie
Part II.Language policies and attitudes
Chapter 3.Hierarchies in the language ecology of Botswana40
Sheena Shah
Chapter 4.English in the multilingual ecology of anglophone
and francophone Cameroon64
and francophone Cameroon64
Gardy Stein
Chapter 5.Global English in multilingual Philippines: Language practices in government communications91
Loy Lising
Chapter 6.Top-down policies and the language profiles of Malaysians
in a multilingual language ecology116
in a multilingual language ecology116
Stefanie Pillai
Siti Zaidah Zainuddin
Chapter 7.Multilingualism in Shanghai: A comparative perspective on university students’ linguistic profiles and attitudes143
Yongyan Zheng
Peter Siemund
Chapter 8.The linguistic ecology of Cyprus166
Manuela Vida-Mannl
Sarah Buschfeld
Kleanthes K. Grohmann
Chapter 9.English in the Kurdistan region of Iraq: Historical background, new status, and future implications190
Ludwig Paul
Zana Ibrahim
Part III.Case studies
Chapter 10.English in the linguistic landscape(s) of rural Tanzania208
Amani Lusekelo
Roland Kießling
Chapter 11.The Zanzibari tourist space as a multilingual language ecology231
Susanne Mohr
Chapter 12.The sociolinguistics of English in the plurilingual ecology
of Lagos (Nigeria): A pilot study on class, ethnicity and entrepreneurship258
of Lagos (Nigeria): A pilot study on class, ethnicity and entrepreneurship258
Henning Schreiber
Mirjam Möller Nwadigo
Chapter 13.The role of English in the linguistic ecology of Northeast India291
Robert Fuchs
Caroline Wiltshire
Priyankoo Sarmah
Chapter 14.Discourse-pragmatic like in East Asian Englishes: Focus on Taiwan317
Jakob R. E. Leimgruber
Sofia Rüdiger
Chapter 15.Translanguaging the hero online: A case study on language ecology in praising Qatar’s Emir during the 2017–2021 blockade335
Irene Theodoropoulou
Chapter 16.English as a lingua franca in Croatia’s multilingual ecology364
Manuela Vida-Mannl
Chapter 17.Envoi384
Simone E. Pfenninger
Language index
Subject index
