In:English across Borders: A reflexive approach to anglophone migrants’ repertoires
Axel Bohmann
[Varieties of English Around the World G72] 2025
► pp. 5–63
Chapter 2From World Englishes to English in complex, multilingual
ecologies
Published online: 18 September 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g72.c2
https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g72.c2
Article outline
- 2.1World Englishes models
- 2.1.1Strevens’ world map of English
- 2.1.2Kachru’s Circles Model
- 2.1.3Schneider’s Dynamic Model
- 2.2Focus on the Expanding Circle and lingua-franca English
- 2.2.1Buschfeld & Kautzsch’s model of extra- and intra-territorial forces
- 2.2.2World Englishes and English as a lingua franca
- 2.2.3Transient multilingual constellations
- 2.3World Englishes, globalization, and superdiversity
- 2.3.1Superdiversity
- 2.3.2The sociolinguistics of globalization
- 2.3.3Language as a verb: Translanguaging and metrolingualism
- 2.3.4World Englishes and superdiversity: Towards synthesis
- 2.3.5The world system of Englishes
- 2.4Reflections on models and modeling in World Englishes
- 2.5Reflexivity and global English
- 2.5.1Enregisterment
- 2.5.2Language ideologies
- 2.5.3A reflexive approach to global English
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